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Bit numbering[edit]
- ..."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#More than one 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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