Just a little bit
Question: Who coined the term 'bit'?
- John Tukey
- Donald Knuth
- Alan Turing
- Ada Lovelace
Answer: John Tukey
The word first appeared in print in the computer-science sense in 1949. Tukey said that it evolved over the lunch table as a handier alternative to 'bigit' or 'binit'.
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