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Wo-to-the-N Quant. An Amount Much Larger Than N But Smaller Than Infinity.
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two-to-the-N quant.
An amount much larger than N but
smaller than infinity. "I have 2-to-the-N things to
do before I can go out for lunch" means you probably won't show
up.
Related:
wo-to-the-N: quant. An amount much larger than {N} but smaller than {infinity}.
I have 2-to-the-N things to do before I can go out for lunch" means you probably won't show up....
crumb: n. Two binary digits; a {quad}. Larger than a {bit}, smaller than a {nybble}.
Considered silly. Syn. {tayste}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
crumb n. Two binary digits; a quad. Larger than a bit, smaller than a nybble.
Considered silly. Syn. tayste. General discussion of such terms is under nybble....
ime T: /ti:m T/ n. 1. An unspecified but usually well-understood time, often used in conjunction with a later time T+1.
"We'll meet on campus at time T or at Louie's at time T+1" means, in the context of going out for dinne...
coefficient of X n. Hackish speech makes heavy use of pseudo-mathematical metaphors.
Four particularly important ones involve the terms `coefficient', `factor', `index of X', and `quotient'....
N: /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
"There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
N /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
epsilon squared n. A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal
completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared....
You may be infinitely smaller than some things, but you're infinitely larger than others.