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EQUIVALENT-BINARY-DIGIT FACTOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The average number of binary digits needed to express one radix digit in a numeration system that is not binary; on the average a number that can be expressed in N decimal digits takes 3.3N binary digits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("equivalent-binary-digit factor" is a kind of...):
divisor; factor (one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer)