Meaning of nybble | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of nibble (“unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits”).

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Examples

“I own⟳ several abaci and two books on how to use⟳ them, but they all have⟳ four counters below the bar and one counter above it. […] The bottom four counters of each abacus can be used to represent⟳ a "nybble," and the upper counter on each can be used for parity.”

“At every negative-going transition it reads a 4-bit ADPCM nybble (there are 2 nybbles per byte) and stores it in a memory-resident table.”

“Data is being received by a system in serial sequences of four bit nybbles. (A nybble is usually defined as a four bit grouping.) […] Our mission, should we decide⟳ to accept⟳ it, is to test⟳ each nybble and determine⟳ whether or not the four bits constitute a valid BCD (8421) number⟳.”

“Similarly, it's easy to convert a binary number⟳ such as %1100011010110010 into its hexadecimal equivalent. All we have⟳ to do is to split⟳ the binary value into 4-bit nybbles and to map each nybble onto its corresponding hexadecimal digit.”

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