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C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

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182 points Twirrim | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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pabs3 ◴[18 Oct 24 01:00 UTC] No.41875419[source]▶
Hmm, I wonder if any modern languages can work on computers that use trits instead of bits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

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1. cogman10 ◴[18 Oct 24 01:29 UTC] No.41875556[source]▶
It'd just be a translation/compiler problem. Most languages don't really have a "bit", instead it's usually a byte with the upper bits ignored.