Oh, NYT Mini Crossword, you cheeky devil. The New York Times can sometimes play tricks on you and send you completely the wrong way, and that's exactly what they did to me today with the clue "small, small part of a performance".
NYT Connections, Mini Crossword and Strands | Aug 8, 2024
Stop right there! I'm going to tell you the answer.
Correct, the answer to number three in the July 29 NYT Mini Crossword is "BYTE". I thought this clue was about concerts, not computers – silly me. A byte is a unit of data that is eight binary digits long. A megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes. My laptop has a terabyte of storage and I can only imagine how many bytes that is.
German-American computer scientist Werner Buchholz coined the term byte in 1956. Maybe he was hungry that day.
