Quarter.
a quarter? or two bits?
The reason the US quarter dollar (25 cents) is called "two bits" originates from the circa. 1598 practice of dividing a Spanish dollar (the Real de a Ocho) into eight wedge-shaped segments. The coin was worth eight Spanish reales, thus each wedge was worth 1 reale or "a piece of eight". Two such pieces (or "two bits") became a common nickname for a quarter dollar.
a group of 16 bits is called a "word"
The term "two bits" for a quarter originates from the Spanish dollar, or "pieces of eight," which was widely used in colonial America. The dollar was subdivided into eight "bits," so a quarter of a dollar was referred to as "two bits." This colloquialism persisted even after the U.S. established its own currency system, and it remains a part of American vernacular today.
its called a Nibble
It used to be called "two bits".
a quarter? or two bits?
Quarter.
byte
The two sides of a coin are called head and tail.
The reason the US quarter dollar (25 cents) is called "two bits" originates from the circa. 1598 practice of dividing a Spanish dollar (the Real de a Ocho) into eight wedge-shaped segments. The coin was worth eight Spanish reales, thus each wedge was worth 1 reale or "a piece of eight". Two such pieces (or "two bits") became a common nickname for a quarter dollar.
There are about 40,00 bits of bacteria on a coin and germs
The value of any coin is determined by a number of necessary bits of information. One of those bits is the exact date of the coin.
I believe that would be a one dollar coin, cut into 8 equal pieces, two-bits equaled 25 cents.
No. 8 bits is called a byte.
Two bits is the same as one quarter. It comes from the Spanish 'real' which was called a 'bit'. A 'bit' was worth an eighth of a Spanish dollar.
Spanish dollar