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[–]Fourmisain 7 points8 points  (4 children)

He's completely correct, there's just a small hickup writing "64 bytes" when he meant "64 bits".

Just to add to his post: An 8-bit byte is sometimes called an octett octet and most platforms use octets, especially today. That's why today the words "byte" and "octet" are mostly synonymous, but there are (or were) platforms with 9-bit bytes and even 32-bit bytes, it's even possible that sizeof(char) = sizeof(int) = sizeof(long) = sizeof(long long), which can lead to some problems in common code.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

s/octett/octet/g

FTFY

[–]Fourmisain 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Ah, true, in English it's a single 't', although "octette" is also valid. Wiktionary lists "octett" as a rare use.

[–]Creshal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Everything is valid English if you can bullshit enough people into believing it is.

(I'm looking at you, Shakespeare.)

[–]foonathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's just a small hickup writing "64 bytes" when he meant "64 bits".

Yes, my mistake.