User talk:JimGale

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Bit numbering

 * ..."positions on 'bit' (where position 0 is the 1st)... where would something like that go, properly?"

Well, now that I look over the reversion I did, I think I should have replaced the text with some alternative text instead of just deleting it. The section you chose to put it (Bit) was fairly good. The "right" place for something like this is not necessarily easy to determine. There really is a better place for a discussion of it (namely Most significant bit and twin least significant bit), but nevertheless a short mention in the bit article as well could be considered helpful and maybe needed.

The location was not my main concern when I took it out. The problem I was worrying about was that the sentence implied to me there was a single was of numbering bits, which isn't the case. It's usually the case that bits are numbered from 0, which I now would guess was your main point, but the difficulty is that 0 can refer to either the MSB or the LSB. So I took it out, though now I think it would have been better to put a fuller explanation into that section. Maybe I'll get to that one of these days.

Anyway, it wasn't a bad piece of text, but Wikipedia sometimes can take a little getting use to since lots of people jump in, implementing according to their opinion (of the moment). You can expect a fair number of your contributions to get transformed in various ways. In this case, I'm not so much sorry I deleted that line, but am sorry I didn't recognize the opportunity to add a useful enhancement on the very subject it brought up in the article. Cheers. -R. S. Shaw 06:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hi Jim,

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 * Ling.Nut
 * Ling.Nut 11:56, 14 September 2006 (UTC)