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- noun informal, computing The supposed place where
bits go when they fall of the end of aregister during ashift operation; the greatRecycle Bin in the sky; used to describe lost ormissing information
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Originally, the bit bucket was the container on teletype machines or IBM key punch machines into which chad from the paper tape punch or card punch was deposited; the formal name is "chad box" or (at IBM) "chip box".
September 27, 2008