Dr.Al
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Since you were clearly hoping for a bit of pedantry, a word isn't necessarily 16 bits. A word is the natural unit of data for a particular microprocessor. On a 16-bit micro, a word is 16 bits but on a 32 bit one it's 32 bits.And two, it occurred to me I made a mistake, not that anyone seemed to notice so I'll say it was a deliberate test, and everyone failed.
4 bits is a nibble, a word is 2 bytes, 16 bits.
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