Re: New 32bit packages for amd64
On Thursday 14 July 2005 01:40 pm, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 18:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > 37.5 cent packages? ;)
> >
> >
> >
> > (Or is that solely an Americanism?)
>
> I don't get that. Must be an Americanism.
>
> MfG
> Goswin
The term 2 bits is a colloquialism for 25 cents ($0.25). So, 3 bits would be
37.5 cents.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the term has it's origins in the old
Spanish gold coin which was called a piece of eight because it could be
divided into eight pie-shaped bits. Ergo, a quarter of the coin was 2 bits.
Cheers!
cmr
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