clifford@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Larry Clifford) (10/27/88)
I'm trying to locate the following reference, and others from this source: R. T. Gregory, "The use of finite-segment P-adic arithmetic for exact computations," BIT, vol. 18, pp. 282-300, 1978. What the hell does BIT stand for? I've asked professors, fellow students, and looked at dictionaries of acronyms in the library. Help! Post reply, or e-mail to: clifford%eleazar@dartmouth.edu Thanks very much. -- Larry Clifford
bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) (10/28/88)
BIT is not an acronym. It is the literal name of a journal. Bob Silverman
ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) (10/28/88)
In article <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> writes: >I'm trying to locate the following reference, and others from this source: > R. T. Gregory, "The use of finite-segment P-adic arithmetic for exact > computations," BIT, vol. 18, pp. 282-300, 1978. >What the hell does BIT stand for? I've asked professors, fellow students, >and looked at dictionaries of acronyms in the library. Help! It's a computer science journal; each issue tends to be about half numerical analysis, half general CS. Definitely one of the good journals. The original title was (I apologise in advance for the spelling; I do not know any Scandinavian language) "Nordiske Tidshrift fur Informations- Behandlung". (read the acronym backwards...) Early issues were in a mix of languages, but they ended up with all the articles in English.
vrh@mh_co2.mh.nl (Michael Verheij) (10/28/88)
In article <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> writes: >I'm trying to locate the following reference, and others from this source: > > R. T. Gregory, "The use of finite-segment P-adic arithmetic for exact > computations," BIT, vol. 18, pp. 282-300, 1978. > > >What the hell does BIT stand for? I've asked professors, fellow students, >and looked at dictionaries of acronyms in the library. Help! > Have you ever thought of "BInary digiT"? ^^ ^ That was one of the first things I learned at the The Hague Polytechnic. --- Michael Verheij (using Netnews) USENET: vrh@mh.nl via European backbone (mcvax). UUCP: ..!mcvax!mhres!vrh "Experience comes with the amount of equipment ruined." Michael Verheij (using Netnews) USENET: vrh@mh.nl via European backbone (mcvax). UUCP: ..!mcvax!mhres!vrh "Experience comes with the amount of equipment ruined."
tyler@procase.UUCP (William B. Tyler) (10/29/88)
In article <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> writes: >I'm trying to locate the following reference, and others from this source: > > R. T. Gregory, "The use of finite-segment P-adic arithmetic for exact > computations," BIT, vol. 18, pp. 282-300, 1978. > > >What the hell does BIT stand for? I've asked professors, fellow students, >and looked at dictionaries of acronyms in the library. Help! > You can't be the only person who is confused when they see this for the first time, so I think the answer is worth posting. This is probably the most twisted journal name in existence. The actual name (except for some probable spelling errors) is Nordisk Tidskrift for Informations Behandling. The cover lays out the name more or less as shown below: Nordisk Tidskrift for Informations Behandling (I may have this slightly wrong, it's been a few years since I looked at one.) Anyhow, you've probably already noticed that if you read the initial letters diagonally up and right, you get BIT. I don't know what happened to the 'N' :-) Hope this is of some help. Bill Tyler -- Bill Tyler ...(tolerant|hpda)!procase!tyler
root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) (10/29/88)
From article <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, by clifford@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Larry Clifford): > I'm trying to locate the following reference, and others from this source: > R. T. Gregory, "The use of finite-segment P-adic arithmetic for exact > computations," BIT, vol. 18, pp. 282-300, 1978. > > What the hell does BIT stand for? I've asked professors, fellow students, > and looked at dictionaries of acronyms in the library. Help! > > Thanks very much. -- Larry Clifford Seems to me that BIT stands for Binary Digit. At least, that is what it means when in reference to a "16 bit integer". What does it mean in terms of the title of that magazine? I sure don't know. -- Jay Libove ARPA: jl42@andrew.cmu.edu or libove@cs.cmu.edu 5731 Centre Ave, Apt 3 BITnet: jl42@andrew or jl42@drycas Pittsburgh, PA 15206 UUCP: uunet!nfsun!libove!libove or (412) 362-8983 UUCP: psuvax1!pitt!darth!libove!libove
kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post) (10/31/88)
"> >Seems to me that BIT stands for Binary Digit. At least, that is what >it means when in reference to a "16 bit integer". > Yes, but this is a newsletter/magazine and as an earlier posting said, BIT reads backwards as "Behandling Informations Tidskrift", swedish for Information Processing Newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A real programmer never goes ! Kjell Post, Dept of Comp & Info Sciences to the john without bringing ! University of California, Santa Cruz a manual to read. ! Email: kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A real programmer never goes ! Kjell Post, Dept of Comp & Info Sciences to the john without bringing ! University of California, Santa Cruz a manual to read. ! Email: kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu