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;Bit : The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question; a computational quantity that can take on one of two values, such as false and true or 0 and 1; the smallest unit of storage - sufficient to hold one bit. | ;Bit : The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question; a computational quantity that can take on one of two values, such as false and true or 0 and 1; the smallest unit of storage - sufficient to hold one bit. | ||
;Bitmap (BMP): A picture created on a visual display unit where each pixel corresponds to one or more bits in memory, the number of bits per pixel determining the number of available colors. | ;Bitmap (BMP): A picture created on a visual display unit where each pixel corresponds to one or more bits in memory, the number of bits per pixel determining the number of available colors. | ||
;Block: A restriction imposed upon a sockpuppet or severely misbehaving user by an administrator that prevents them from editing the database. | ;Block: A restriction imposed upon a sockpuppet or severely misbehaving user by an administrator that prevents them from editing the database, also called a '''Ban'''. | ||
;Broken Redirect: A redirect that leads to a page that does not exist. | |||
;Bug: An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction. E.g. "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward." The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called "debugging". | ;Bug: An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction. E.g. "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward." The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called "debugging". | ||
;[[MarioWiki:Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]]: Users that have deleting, CheckUser, blocking, UserRights, and rename rights. | ;[[MarioWiki:Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]]: Users that have deleting, CheckUser, blocking, UserRights, and rename rights. | ||