EQUIVALENT-BINARY-DIGIT FACTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equivalent-binary-digit factor mean? 

• EQUIVALENT-BINARY-DIGIT FACTOR (noun)
  The noun EQUIVALENT-BINARY-DIGIT FACTOR has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: EQUIVALENT-BINARY-DIGIT FACTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUIVALENT-BINARY-DIGIT FACTOR (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

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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)