Element Water. Opal is a stone of sympathy and compassion, pure thoughts and confidence. It is the most unpredictable stone, a symbol of ever-changing fortune. The name opal originated from Sanskrit upala which means jewel.Colors of Opal are very diverse (almost all colors of the spectrum).pal is a stone of sympathy and compassion, pure thoughts and confidence. It is the most unpredictable stone, a symbol of ever-changing fortune. The name opal originated from Sanskrit upala which means jewel. Colors of Opal are very diverse (almost all colors of the spectrum).
Quora User, Printbroker, financial printer, non-practising lawyer. 1  The English idiom bits and bobs means an assortment of things (usually small things), and articulates with the same meaning as the phrase bits and pieces.. 2  Bobs is probably a fossil word in a Siamese twins phrase.
Bits is in 'compact' format. This is kind of like a floating point format, but it represents big integers rather than arbitrary real numbers. The first byte indicates the number of bytes the represented number takes up, and the next one to three bytes give the most significant digits of the number.