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• quarter: n. Two bits. This in turn comes from the `pieces of eight' famed in pirate movies --- Spanish silver crowns that could be broken into eight pie-slice-shaped `bits' to make change.
  Early in American history the Spanish coin was considered equal to a dollar, so each of these `bits' was considered worth 12....
• crumb n. Two binary digits; a quad. Larger than a bit, smaller than a nybble.
  Considered silly. Syn. tayste. General discussion of such terms is under nybble....
• ayste: /tayst/ n. Two bits; also as {taste}. Syn.
  {crumb}, {quarter}. Compare {{byte}}, {dynner}, {playte}, {nybble}, {quad}....
• dynner /din'r/ n. 32 bits, by analogy with nybble and byte.
  Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also playte, tayste, crumb....
• ayste /tayst/ n. Two bits; also as taste. Syn. crumb, quarter. See nybble.
• playte /playt/ 16 bits, by analogy with nybble and byte.
  Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also dynner and crumb....
• crumb: n. Two binary digits; a {quad}. Larger than a {bit}, smaller than a {nybble}.
  Considered silly. Syn. {tayste}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ybble /nib'l/ (alt. `nibble') n. [from v. `nibble' by analogy with `bite' =&g
  `byte'] Four bits; one hex digit; a half-byte. Though `byte' is now techspeak, this useful relative is still jargon....
• quad n. 1. Two bits; syn. for quarter, crumb, tayste.
  2. A four-pack of anything (compare hex, sense 2)....