[Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

[David Artman]

I find this an interesting grammatical/ topographical challenge. 16, as a sole adjective modifying bit(s), seems'isolated', regardless of narrative or referential context. "16 bits make a double byte".But it gets muddy in my mind when it's a compound "16-bit" adjective. Sure,  "16-bit processor " makes total sense to me. But "the processor is 16 bit" makes as much sense, even though that is an adjective. I'm ignoring, for this post, referential stat stuff: units and measures are adjectives and nouns, in tables or whatnot. No hyphen. I look forward to more thoughts! Weird corner case....DavidDCA:d.a.d
-------- Original message --------From: Doug <dbailey4117 at gmail.com> Date: 9/23/19  18:36  (GMT-05:00) To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software." <framers at lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ???? > For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide".Or another way: "It features an 16-bit auxiliary data bus".>>_______________________________________________This message is from the Framers mailing listSend messages to framers at lists.frameusers.comVisit the list's homepage at  http://www.frameusers.comArchives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.comSend administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com