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• eraflop club: /te'r*-flop kluhb/ [FLOP = Floating Point Operation] n.
  A mythical association of people who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques....
• Knights of the Lambda Calculus n. A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme hackers.
  The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected....
• Knights of the Lambda Calculus: n. A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme hackers.
  The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected....
• umber-crunching: n. Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....
• umber-crunching n. [common] Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  hose that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....
• Well, it's better than being Professor of Floating Point! -- R. William Gospe
• Flip flop (n.): 1) beach sandal; 2) Clinton governmental strategy.
• FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party.
  The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals....
• How long will a floating point operation float?