The number of bits measures the capacity that a chip has for moving data around.

Let M be the number of bits written in step 2.

Let be the number of bits in a machine word.

As fewer players are near each other the number of bits per direction could scale back up.

Let n be the total number of bits in the two input numbers.

I never understood why we need a fixed number of bits, though.

It is followed by a slash and then the number of common bits.

As the number of bits per second increases, the time in which to look for any particular bit decreases.

The 48 is the number of bits they have over on their network side.

So 128 minus 48 is the number of bits I have.