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Backgammon See Bignum (sense 3), Moby (sense 4), And Pseudoprime.
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backgammon
See bignum (sense 3), moby (sense 4),
and pseudoprime.
Related:
moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
bignum /big'nuhm/ n. [common; orig. from MIT MacLISP] 1.
[techspeak] A multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers....
pseudoprime n. A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing.
This term is an esoteric pun derived from number theory...
klone /klohn/ n. See clone, sense 4.
hand cruft vt. [pun on `hand craft'] See cruft, sense 3.
eurodemo /yoor'o-dem`-o/ a demo, sense 4
binary four n. [Usenet] The finger, in the sense of `digitus impudicus'.
This comes from an analogy between binary and the hand, i....
file signature n. A magic number, sense 3.
1. If it's green or wriggles, it's biology. 2. If it stinks, it's chemistry.
3. If it doesn't work, it's physics. 4. If it's incomprehensible, it's mathematics....