@DaveVoyles Word is a well known computer science term.
Who thought using the term "DWORD" was a good idea for representing a number? Why not call it "DINT"? Word? I don't get it.
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@DaveVoyles It's a "double" word I think -
@DaveVoyles Where a 'word' is 16bits
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@The_Zman@rcashie@The_Bard_sRc I've got to go back and learn my comp sci history
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@DaveVoyles blame early computing for making things complicated. things cant even agree on the length of a word usually!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@DaveVoyles : I am sad we never got Nibble data types http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble -
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@DaveVoyles A word is the native data size on the CPU. That was 16 bits when Windows was created. DWORD = Double Word = 32 bits. -
@EdDiGeronimo I'm slowly learning the ways of ancient programming :p. JavaScript has spoiled me, with one numeric type (float)
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