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Breakfast cereal made by Post
"Marshmallow Alpha-Bits", introduced in 1990, contained frosted alphabet-shaped corn cereal bits and marshmallows. This variation of the original Alpha-Bits cereal
Alpha-Bits
64-bit RISC instruction set architecture
Alpha microprocessors Alpha (originally Alpha AXP) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by
DEC_Alpha
Number of bits used to represent a color
depth, also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component
Color_depth
Operation in computer graphics
and can allocate fewer bits to encode low-alpha areas. The same “limitations” of lower quantisation bit depths such as 8 bit per channel are also present
Alpha_compositing
Computer architecture bit width
register format is 80 bits wide, while the general-purpose registers are 32 bits wide. In contrast, the 64-bit Alpha family uses a 64-bit floating-point data
64-bit_computing
Technology used in CPUs
never" bits for both privileged and unprivileged mode and at level 2 have a single "execute never" bit. As of the Fourth Edition of the Alpha Architecture
NX_bit
cereals. Many cereals are trademarked brands of large companies, such as [[Alpha-Bits Apple Jacks Basic 4 Berry Berry Kix Boo Berry Bran Flakes Cap’n Crunch
List_of_breakfast_cereals
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character
Duck in Alpha-Bits". Behind The Voice Actors. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2024. "Marshmallow Alpha Bits Cereal
Daffy_Duck
American businesswoman (1887–1973)
Beta Epsilon, which, in 1969, became the New York Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Since Post had borne only girls, she referred to the fraternity
Marjorie_Merriweather_Post
American consumer foods brand
Mills in the United Kingdom and Ireland) Waffle Crisp 40% Bran Flakes Alpha-Bits Beep Beep (with the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner as mascots) BlueBerry
Post_Consumer_Brands
Windows Bitmap image file format family
24 bits per pixel (bpp). Contemporary DIB Headers allow pixel formats with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bits per pixel (bpp). GDI+ also permits 64 bits per
BMP_file_format
Fictional music group
Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Vintage Old 1970's Post Alpha Bits and Honeycombs Cereal Commercial with free record". YouTube. 18 June 2013
The_Archies
Breakfast cereal
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Weetabix
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character
Bunny Songfest) Dave Barry (Pre-Hysterical Hare) Hal Smith (Post Cereal Alpha-Bits commercials, Tang commercials, Dog Gone People, What's My Lion?, Kool-Aid
Elmer_Fudd
Image compression file format
specification for lossless image compression of 24-bit (8 bits per color RGB) or 32-bit (8 bits per color with 8-bit alpha channel RGBA) color raster (bitmapped)
QOI_(image_format)
Data used for bitwise operations
with a 0. Example: Masking on the higher nibble (bits 4, 5, 6, 7) while leaving the lower nibble (bits 0, 1, 2, 3) unchanged. 10010101 10100101 OR 11110000
Mask_(computing)
American businessman (1854–1914)
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C._W._Post
RGB color model with an opacity channel
there are more than 8 bits per channel (such as 16 bits or floating-point), the channels are stored in RGBA order, even if 8-bit channels are stored in
RGBA_color_model
Family of lossless-compression image file formats
Significant Bits (sBIT)"Grayscale images are the simplest; sBIT then contains a single byte indicating the number of significant bits in the source
PNG
Breakfast cereal made by Post
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Grape-Nuts
American radio broadcaster
free cut-out records of Archies songs on the backs of Post Honeycomb and Alpha-Bits cereals. Ingram also worked for cable channel HBO in the mid-1980s, mostly
Dan_Ingram
Basic unit of quantum information
Furthermore, a set of n bits can be represented by n binary digits, simply by concatenating the representations of each of the bits, whereas a set of n qubits
Qubit
Season of television series
is provided by corporate sponsoring from LEGO, Juicy Juice, and Post Alpha-Bits, and by a Ready-to-Learn grant from the U.S. Department of Education through
Arthur_season_6
Nabisco brand of chocolate chip cookie
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Chips_Ahoy!
Truly Alpha-Bits cereal 1964–early 1970s postman (voiced by Jim Nabors) Alpha-Bits Wizard 1970s–1980s Alfie the Alpha-Bits Cereal Wonder Dog 1980s Alpha 2000s–2021
List of American advertising characters
List_of_American_advertising_characters
Breakfast cereal
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Bran_flakes
Breakfast cereal made by Post Cereals
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Golden_Crisp
Computer architecture bit width
may have 32 bits of physical address, fewer than 32 bits of physical address, or more than 32 bits of physical address. The world's first stored-program
32-bit_computing
Stages in development and support of computer software
stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the final version, or "gold", is released to the public. Pre-alpha refers to the early
Software_release_life_cycle
Breakfast cereal made by Post
contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, while Fruity Pebbles contains crisp rice cereal bits that come in a variety of fruit flavors with a
Pebbles_(cereal)
Brand of peanut butter
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Peter_Pan_(peanut_butter)
Base memory unit handled by a computer
design, in addition to bit, are listed below. Byte denotes a group of bits used to encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in parallel
Word_(computer_architecture)
Season of television series
is provided by corporate sponsoring from LEGO, Juicy Juice, and Post Alpha-Bits, and by a Ready-to-Learn grant from the U.S. Department of Education through
Arthur_season_5
Type of two-dimensional barcode
most 3 bit-errors out of the 5 data bits. There are a total of 15 bits in this BCH code (10 bits are added for error correction). This 15-bit code is
QR_code
Pasta shaped like alphabet letters
pasta canned in tomato sauce. It was later reintroduced by Heinz in 2005. Alpha-Bits List of pasta List of pasta dishes SpaghettiOs Food portal "A history
Alphabet_pasta
Roasted-grain beverage popular as a coffee-substitute
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Postum
Type of matrix barcode
pattern. Format information is built as 18-bit sequence containing 6 data bits, 12 error correction bits calculated using the (18, 6) Extended BCH code
Rectangular_Micro_QR_Code
Breakfast cereal made by Post
1965, owned by Post Holdings. It consists of honey-flavored corn cereal bits in a honeycomb shape. At the end of 2006, Post changed the formula for Honeycomb
Honeycomb_(cereal)
Computer graphics algorithm
ETC2 when measured at 2 and 3.56 bits per texel. For HDR textures, it produces results comparable to BC6H at 8 bits per texel. The algorithm decouples
Adaptive scalable texture compression
Adaptive_scalable_texture_compression
Raster graphics file format
itself permits any pixel bit depth up to 255, of which up to 15 bits can be dedicated to an alpha channel; however, the only bit depths supported in practice
Truevision_TGA
Texture compression algorithm
into 128 bits of output, consisting of 64 bits of alpha channel data (two 8-bit alpha values and a 4×4 3-bit lookup table) followed by 64 bits of color
S3_Texture_Compression
Ionizing radiation particle of two protons and two neutrons
Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to the nucleus
Alpha_particle
Breakfast cereal made by Post
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Post_Toasties
Breakfast cereal containing raisins and bran flakes
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Raisin_bran
Brand of frozen foods
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Birds_Eye
American consumer packaged goods holding company
Grape-Nuts Gravy Train Great Grains Honey Bunches of Oats Honeycomb Kibbles 'n Bits Pebbles Peter Pan peanut butter Premier Protein Raisin Bran Shredded Wheat
Post_Holdings
Computer security technique
(attacked bits per attempt of main executable entropy) A h {\displaystyle A_{h}} (attacked bits per attempt of heap base entropy) α {\displaystyle \alpha } (attempts
Address space layout randomization
Address_space_layout_randomization
Series of server computers
and HP. AlphaServers were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaServers are Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX)
AlphaServer
Discontinued breakfast cereal made by Post
Retrieved February 5, 2013. "[Post] Taste of Memories, Oreo O's with Marshmallow Bits : 250g (8,8oz)". eBay. Retrieved July 11, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated
Oreo_O's
Number of nonzero symbols in a string
given set of bits, this is the number of bits set to 1, or the digit sum of the binary representation of a given number and the ℓ₁ norm of a bit vector. In
Hamming_weight
American breakfast cereal company
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MOM_Brands
Defunct cereal brand owned by Post Foods
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Erewhon_Organic
displayed simultaneously) The 3-2-3 bit RGB palette uses 3 bits for the red color component, 2 bits for the green, and 3 bits for the blue. This results in
List of monochrome and RGB color formats
List_of_monochrome_and_RGB_color_formats
Computer workstations
the name suggests, the AlphaStations were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaStations comprise Tru64 UNIX
AlphaStation
Microprocessor
West. Each port consisted of two 39-bit unidirectional links operating at 800 MHz. 32 bits were for data and 7 bits were for ECC. The network router also
Alpha_21364
American producer of chocolate
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Walter_Baker_&_Company
American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist
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Clarence_Birdseye
Microsoft operating system family
that does not support 32-bit platforms. The 64-bit versions of Windows NT were originally intended to run on Itanium and DEC Alpha; the latter was used internally
Windows_NT
Parallel processing technique
0x7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f); will set all the unwanted low bits in each byte, then complement everything, leaving only 1 bits anywhere the corresponding input byte is zero
SWAR
Manufacturer of various food products
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Ralcorp
Statistical function
{\displaystyle \log |S|} bits, is as concise as the shortest one-part code of x {\displaystyle x} in K ( x ) {\displaystyle K(x)} bits. This can be easily
Kolmogorov_structure_function
Chocolate breakfast cereal made by Post
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CoCo_Wheats
2013 full-frame mirrorless camera
The Sony α7, α7R, α7S and α7C (the α is sometimes spelled out as Alpha) are four closely related families of full-frame mirrorless interchangeable-lens
Sony_α7
Data operation used in computer graphics
a 1-bit mask are used. As the mask is 1-bit, there is no possibility for partial transparency via alpha blending. A loop that examines each bit in the
Bit_blit
American maker of energy bars and related products
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PowerBar
British food company
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Weetabix_Limited
Breakfast cereal made by Post
by Post Consumer Brands, which contains maple syrup–flavored corn cereal bits in a waffle shape. It was first launched in 1996. In 2013, Post introduced
Waffle_Crisp
American director
continue to give Sullivan various auditions. In 1970, he was cast in an Alpha-Bits Cereal commercial, earning over $7,000. He continued to obtain small roles
Kevin_Rodney_Sullivan
Method of storing color
the bits of the two bytes is ignored or set aside for an alpha channel, and the remaining 15 bits are split between the red, green, and blue components of
High_color
64-bit extension of x86 architecture
changes in the 64-bit extensions include: 64-bit integer capability All general-purpose registers (GPRs) are expanded from 32 bits to 64 bits, and all arithmetic
X86-64
Color in digital images
channels, channels are usually encoded in as few bits as possible. Typical values are 8 bits per channel or 16 bits per channel. Indexed color effectively gets
Channel_(digital_image)
British science fiction TV series (1975–1977)
programme, set in the year 1999, follows the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, which is hurtling uncontrollably into space due to an explosion of nuclear
Space:_1999
Breakfast cereal made from whole wheat
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Shredded_wheat
Error-correcting codes
is because it does not matter to the code how many bits in a symbol are in error — if multiple bits in a symbol are corrupted it only counts as a single
Reed–Solomon_error_correction
backends for SPARC (32-bit), x86 (32- and 64-bit), MIPS, ARM (32- and 64-bit), ia64, HPPA, PowerPC (32-bit), Alpha, S390 and RISC-V (64-bit). The features GNU
GNU_lightning
Line of computers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation
architecture, the Alpha AXP (later renamed Alpha), and their own Alpha-based microprocessor, the DECchip 21064, a high performance 64-bit design capable
VAX
Breakfast cereal made from wheat
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Shreddies
Breakfast cereal made by Post
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Honey_Bunches_of_Oats
Computer operating system
64-bit OpenVMS Alpha releases support a maximum virtual address space size of 8TiB (a 43-bit address space), which is the maximum supported by the Alpha
OpenVMS
Microprocessor
Alpha 21164 in their Alpha VME 5/352 and Alpha VME 5/480 single board computers and AlphaPC 164 and AlphaPC 164LX motherboards. Alpha partner Cray Research
Alpha_21164
Minimal polynomial of a primitive element in a finite field
α , α 2 , α 3 , … α p m − 2 } {\displaystyle \{0,1,\alpha ,\alpha ^{2},\alpha ^{3},\ldots \alpha ^{p^{m}-2}\}} is the entire field GF(pm). This implies
Primitive polynomial (field theory)
Primitive_polynomial_(field_theory)
Multisampling computer graphics technique
pixels. Alpha-to-coverage converts the alpha component output from the pixel shader into a temporary coverage mask, where the number of bits set is a
Alpha_to_coverage
Self-correcting computer data storage
is concerned is 64 bits. As a result, the typical setup between DDR and DDR4 is a 72-bit word with 64 data bits and 8 checking bits. DDR5 SDRAM splits
ECC_memory
RISC microprocessor
The Alpha 21264, also known by its code name, EV6, is a RISC microprocessor developed by Digital Equipment Corporation launched on 19 October 1998. The
Alpha_21264
Breakfast cereal made by Post
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Honey_Ohs!
True when either but not both inputs are true
exclusive disjunction has several uses: It tells whether two bits are unequal. It is a controllable bit-flipper (the control input chooses whether or not to invert
Exclusive_or
Slang terms for men
Alpha male and beta male are terms used to describe a perceived social hierarchy among men, originally derived from concepts in animal ethology. In a
Alpha_and_beta_male
1964 American TV series or program
by actor Gerry Matthews. There was also a postman named Lovable Truly (Alpha-Bits), a young Asian boy named So-Hi (Rice Krinkles), and Rory Raccoon (Post
Linus_the_Lionhearted
Hardware cache of a central processing unit
cache, the unused cache index bits become a part of the tag bits. For example, a 2-way set associative cache contributes 1 bit to the tag and a 4-way set
CPU_cache
Error correction code
the generator polynomial is of degree 4, this code has 11 data bits and 4 checksum bits. It is also denoted as: (15, 11) BCH code. The BCH code with d
BCH_code
Computer color depth
assign 3 bits to red, 3 bits to green and 2 bits to blue, as the human eye is less sensitive to blue light. This creates a so called 3-3-2 8-bit color image
8-bit_color
9Lives (1979–1980, with Duck Soup Produckions) Aflac (2004) Air Jordan Alpha-Bits American Express (1998) Astral Paint AT&T AutoNation (2016) Boomerang
List of Warner Bros. Animation productions
List_of_Warner_Bros._Animation_productions
1996 video game
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as Street Fighter Zero 2 in Japan, Asia, South America, and Oceania, is a 1996 fighting game developed and published by
Street_Fighter_Alpha_2
American animation studio
Archive in Germany. Commercials Acura Integra (1994) AirTouch Cellular Alpha-Bits Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau (1981) Brown & Polson (1980s)
Kurtz_&_Friends
2001 American TV series or program
Wheels Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet The Wasp Woman In September 2019, Alpha Video announced the first three of ten newly remastered Cinema Insomnia
Cinema_Insomnia
Equations describing classical electromagnetism
potential 1-form, J = − J α ⋆ d x α {\displaystyle J=-J_{\alpha }{\star }\mathrm {d} x^{\alpha }} is the current 3-form, d is the exterior derivative, and
Maxwell's_equations
Computing term
of bits per pixel which identify its color (the color depth). Pixels of 8 bits and fewer can represent either grayscale or indexed color. An alpha channel
Bitmap
Windows icon file format
The bits per pixel might be set to zero, but can be inferred from the other data; specifically, if the bitmap is not PNG compressed, then the bits per
ICO_(file_format)
Physical phenomenon
encoded in two classical bits of information. Both qubits at location A are then discarded. Using the classical channel, the two bits are sent from A to B
Quantum_teleportation
Nonprofit foundation in Hamburg, Germany
"Decentralized communication networks", "Enduring freedom of information", "Alpha-BIT-isation" (media and technology education), "Informational Self-Determination"
Wau_Holland_Foundation
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
Girl/Female
Indian
Little
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a maker and seller of spurs, bits, and other small metal attachments to harness and tackle. Compare Lorimer.
Surname or Lastname
Swiss German
Swiss German : probably an altered form of Swiss Büchi. However, in The Mennonite Encyclopedia Bitsche (or Bitschi) is proposed as the origin. See also Beachy.English : variant of Peach.Swiss Surnames shows numerous Büchis (mainly in Zürich and Toggenburg) and several variants (Bücheli, Büchele, Bücheler, Büchler, etc.), whereas Bitsch(e) is listed four times and was apparently taken to Switzerland from Germany at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Peachey is most common in Mifflin Co., PA; other variants appear in various communities.
Boy/Male
Hindu
First letter of the greek alphabet
Boy/Male
African, Australian, Chinese, French, Latin, Swedish
First Letter of the Greek Alphabet; Leader
Male
African
(ox); the first letter of the Greek alphabet.
Boy/Male
Tamil
First letter of the greek alphabet
Boy/Male
Hindu
Heart bits
Girl/Female
Indian
Loving
Girl/Female
American, British, English, Greek
Healer; With Healing Power
Girl/Female
Arabic
Respectable
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Little; Collection of Many Small Things
Boy/Male
Tamil
Heart bits
Girl/Female
English American
Healer.
Girl/Female
Greek American
Firstbom.' The first letter of the Greek alphabet.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Little
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
Male
Irish
Variant spelling of Irish Gaelic Iarfhlaith, IARLAITH means "lord of the west."Â
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Prosperous
Girl/Female
Indian
Well-arranged, Well-ordered
Boy/Male
Arabic American
Companion.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Girl/Female
Tamil
Meethu | மீதà¯à®‚, மீடà¯à®‚Â
Sweet
Girl/Female
Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, Jamaican, Portuguese
Compound of the Names Polly and Anna; Bitter; Gracious; One who Plays for Real Madrid
Girl/Female
English
Joy. Cheer.
Female
French
 French form of Latin Regina, REINE means "queen." Compare with another form of Reine.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places called Birchfield, from Old English birce ‘birch’ + feld ‘open country’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
n.
A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.
n.
The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.
n.
The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.
n.
A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
n.
Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
n.
The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
n.
The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
n.
Alt. of Alpia
n.
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.
a.
Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less.
n.
A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
v. t.
To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable.
n.
The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.
n.
A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.
n.
A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; -- used as a symbol.
n.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
v. t.
To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.
n.
One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps."
v. t.
To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes nibble at the bait.