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But we know you like any song about a saddle-sore cowpoke riding into a saloon town of soakin 'wet girls to get some time in the rack with his four-bit hooker.
Don Parker: Aerosmith, Rep. Cantor, Hookers, and Hypocrisy 2009
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These were no ordinary picnics: One digital version of charades, for example, had teams competing to send numerical messages using smoke-signal machines, in which the winners devised their own four-bit binary code.
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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When you have a four-bit symbol, you then put it together with another one sideways.
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You can find it on the East Coast as well as the West Coast, and often the symbols are very well preserved, so each of these symbols has four bits -- it's a four-bit binary word -- you draw these lines in the sand randomly, and then you count off, and if it's an odd number, you put down one stroke, and if it's an even number, you put down two strokes.
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You can find it on the East Coast as well as the West Coast, and often the symbols are very well preserved, so each of these symbols has four bits -- it's a four-bit binary word -- you draw these lines in the sand randomly, and then you count off, and if it's an odd number, you put down one stroke, and if it's an even number, you put down two strokes.
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When you have a four-bit symbol, you then put it together with another one sideways.
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You can find it on the East Coast as well as the West Coast, and often the symbols are very well preserved, so each of these symbols has four bits -- it's a four-bit binary word -- you draw these lines in the sand randomly, and then you count off, and if it's an odd number, you put down one stroke, and if it's an even number, you put down two strokes.
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When you have a four-bit symbol, you then put it together with another one sideways.
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This familiar RGB red green blue color scheme, traceable to the awful days of the four-bit, 16-color palette of IBM's color graphics adapter, is now expressed in hexadecimal format.
The mathematics of TrueColor (and what it has to do with law and legal education) 2006
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This familiar RGB red green blue color scheme, traceable to the awful days of the four-bit, 16-color palette of IBM's color graphics adapter, is now expressed in hexadecimal format.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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