Weight on bit (WOB), as expressed in the oil industry, is the amount of downward force exerted on the drill bit and is normally measured in thousands...

sideways sum, or bit summation. The Hamming weight is named after Richard Hamming although he did not originate the notion. The Hamming weight of binary numbers...

necessary weight on the bit. Type 2 uses heavy weight drill pipe as a transition between the drill collars and the drill pipe. Weight on bit is achieved...

speed, available weight on bit, pump horsepower) and the angle of the wellbore (vertical, directional, horizontal). Modern drill bit designs try to balance...

computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number. In computing, the least significant bit (LSb) is the bit position...

to encode a marker bit Bit 0 is the frame marker bit Pr. Every 10th bit starting with bit 9, 19, 29, ... 99 is also a marker bit, known as position identifiers...

Complement, the sign bit has the weight -2w-1 where w is equal to the bits position in the number. With an 8-bit integer, the sign bit would have the value...

and weight distribution. A well schooled horse needs little pressure on the bit from a skilled rider. Studies have indicated that soft, consistent bit contact...

commonly recorded on a VTR track or other storage media. The bits are encoded using the biphase mark code (also known as FM): a 0 bit has a single transition...

A bit array (also known as bitmask, bit map, bit set, bit string, or bit vector) is an array data structure that compactly stores bits. It can be used...

information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer...

notated on a mud log include directional data (deviation surveys), weight on bit, rotary speed, pump pressure, pump rate, viscosity, drill bit info, casing...

weighting system is ballast weight added to a diver or diving equipment to counteract excess buoyancy. They may be used by divers or on equipment such as diving...

(ROP) of the bit (sometimes called the drill rate), pump rate (quantity of fluid being pumped), pump pressure, weight on bit, drill string weight, rotary speed...

each bit is reversed: on the second, the carrier is increased to full power. Some time during the second (depending on the bit to be transmitted), the...

– well in work over WO/O – waiting on orders WOA – well operations authorization WOB – weight on bit WOC – wait on cement WOC – water/oil contact (or...

for bits 59 through 14, inclusive. Bit 59 (no amplitude modulation) is phase-modulated as a 0-bit. Bits 0–9 are phase modulated as 1 bits, and bits 10–14...

encode the total number of bits set (the Hamming weight of) bits 21 through 58. Because this includes the even parity bits, the sum is always even. Also...

implemened in PowerMeter) is used for 16-bit floating-point, and SPECint92 and SPECfp92 are used for the 32-bit components. There were three revisions of...

Power-to-weight ratio (PWR, also called specific power, or power-to-mass ratio) is a calculation commonly applied to engines and mobile power sources to...

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constant-weight code that provides exactly ten possible combinations of two bits, and is thus used for representing the decimal digits using five bits. Each...

fewer bits than less common symbols. Huffman's method can be efficiently implemented, finding a code in time linear to the number of input weights if these...

scheme) Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre Weight on bit, the amount of downward force exerted on the drill bit Work of breathing, medical term for the effort...

rate (ROP), rotary speed, weight on bit, bit diameter and mud weight; it is plotted against drilled depth. As a drill bit bores into rock, it will gradually...

of binary digits, also known as bits, to each character, instruction, etc. For example, a binary string of eight bits (which is also called a byte) can...

binary number representation. The weight of each bit is a power of two, except for the most significant bit, whose weight is the negative of the corresponding...

any vibration downhole Downhole temperature Torque and weight on bit, measured near the drill bit Mud flow volume Use of this information can allow the...

second). Bits 60–68 and 70–78 are reserved for other uses; IEEE 1344 is such a use. It defines the bits as follows: The DST and leap warning bits are set...

by weight in columns Reduce the number of partial products by stages of full and half adders until we are left with at most two bits of each weight. Add...