I never quite realized that there were numbered and lettered bit sizes for
intermediate widths.

Makes more sense than things like 37/256th 's. Unless they are primarily
metric.

The metric debate got me thinking:

Since all the common denomenators for franctional inches are powers of 2,
wouldn't it be much less cumbersome to express the demomenator as the
exponent of the power of 2?

That is:

1/2 = 1/(2^1) could be expressed as 1:1 or "one, one"
3/4 = 3/(2^2) or "three, two"
3/16 would be "three, four"
37/256 would be "thiry seven, eight"

But then again I'm comfortable in hexidecimal.

-Steve



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