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		dungle6 on July 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flowmatic (1957) [pdf] The words are 36 bits. 3 12 bit characters (the analogue to a byte)

jonsen on July 22, 2017 | [–]

Wikipedia: "The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size – byte-sizes from 1[3] to 48 bits[4] are known to have been used in the past."

andars on July 22, 2017 | [–]

12 3 bit characters.

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