Editing Bit (section)

== History ==

[[Ralph Hartley]] suggested the use of a logarithmic measure of information in 1928.<ref name="Abramson_1963"/> [[Claude E. Shannon]] first used the word "bit" in his seminal 1948 paper "[[A Mathematical Theory of Communication]]".<ref name="Shannon_1948_1"/><ref name="Shannon_1948_2"/><ref name="Shannon_1949"/> He attributed its origin to [[John W. Tukey]], who had written a Bell Labs memo on 9 January 1947 in which he contracted "binary information digit" to simply "bit".<ref name="Shannon_1948_1"/>