Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Represents image pixel by pixel, rather than by mathematical primitives such as done in vector graphics:

Smaller files, scalable image size, and editability. Why would you use anything else for programmatically generated images?!?!

Served as both input, output and storage system in the eary days!

The non-regular version of the hypercube.

The opposite of a human-readable format.

In a way, Agilent represents the most grassroots electronics parts of HP from before they became overly invested in laptops and fell.

They spun out the electronics part as Keysight in 2014, becoming life science only.

Single chemical element, single phase (usually solid), but different 3D structures.

The prototypical examples are the allotropes of carbon such as diamond vs graphite.

archive.org/details/quantumstoryhist0000bagg on the Internet Archive Open Library.