The 36-bit word length was common in the early days of computers.

The computer was based on a 12-bit word length with 24-bit instructions.

The first microprocessors had a 4-bit word length and were developed around 1970.

Now, the word length can be pretty much whatever we want.

But back in the beginning the word length was whatever the designers wanted.

Factors such as the number of letters different, and word length are often involved.

The word length was 24 bits, which could be used as four 6 bit characters.

Could you phone their editor and ask him for his absolute top word length?

A Short story may be any length up to 10,000 words, but these word lengths vary.

In some other languages, the full word length is written out as the name of the function.