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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Those are units of discrete quantity, so couple, dozen, score, gross, grand, etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-numerical_words_for_quantities

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

Fractional bits come up in non-deterministic situation, sometimes.

[-] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Just use fractions, like with inches. ⅞

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

See, that's actually the one thing I really like about imperial. Binary subdivisions are good.

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