meaning of niam
1. NIAM Natural Language Information Analysis Method or Nijssen IAM nibble /nibl/ US "nybble", by analogy with "bite" -> "byte" Half a byte. Since a byte is nearly always eight bits, a nibble is nearly always four bits and can therefore be represented by one hex digit. Other size nibbles have existed, for example the BBC Microcomputer disk file system used eleven bit sector numbers which were described as one byte eight bits and a nibble
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