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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....
• ayste: /tayst/ n. Two bits; also as {taste}. Syn.
  {crumb}, {quarter}. Compare {{byte}}, {dynner}, {playte}, {nybble}, {quad}....
• dynner: /din'r/ 32 bits, by analogy with {nybble} and {{byte}}.
  Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also {playte}, {tayste}, {crumb}....
• playte: /playt/ 16 bits, by analogy with {nybble} and {{byte}}.
  Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also {dynner} and {crumb}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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.
• ybble: /nib'l/ (alt. `nibble') [from v. `nibble' by analogy with `bite' => `byte'] n.
  Four bits; one {hex} digit; a half-byte. Though `byte' is now techspeak, this useful relative is still jargon....
• crumb: n. Two binary digits; a {quad}. Larger than a {bit}, smaller than a {nybble}.
  Considered silly. Syn. {tayste}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• playte /playt/ 16 bits, by analogy with nybble and byte.
  Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also dynner and crumb....