A bit.
it's called a "bit"
A binary digit, or bit.
"Binary" and "Digit", coined by John Tukey in 1946.
While the computer/information term 'bit' was first used in a research paper by Claude Shannon in 1948, the term was coined by John Tukey as a contraction of binary digit while he was working on concepts of computer design. I suppose during the holidays we could say it is a bit of Tukey.
Bit
bit = binary digit
"bit"
Bit
Binary Digit
A "bit" is short for binary digit.
Each 0 or 1 is called a bit-short for binary digit.
bit is a contraction for binary digit
That is called a "bit", short for "binary digit".
Bit, short for Binary Digit.
A binit is a computing term for a bit or a binary digit.
It is a contraction of "binary digit".This is one of the terms we actually do know where come from - it was first used publicly by Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, in a paper in 1948.