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・ bit bashing
・ bit bucket
・ bit decay
・ bit diddling
・ bit error rate
・ bit field
・ bit mask
・ bit pattern
・ bit plane
・ bit rate
bit rot
・ bit slice
・ bit string
・ bit stuffing
・ bit twiddling
・ bit-paired keyboard
・ bit-robbing
・ bitblt
・ bite
・ bitmap


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bit rot : FOLDOC
bit rot
A hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has changed". The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled.
People with a physics background tend to prefer the variant "bit decay" for the analogy with particle decay.
There actually are physical processes that produce such effects (alpha particles generated by trace radionuclides in ceramic chip packages, for example, can change the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage), but they are quite rare (and computers are built with error detection circuitry to compensate for them). The notion long favoured among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth.



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