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index of X n. See coefficient of X.
infant mortality n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large
infinite adj. [common] Consisting of a large number of objec
extreme. Used very loosely as in: "This program produces infinite garbage....
infinite loop n.
Infinite-Monkey Theorem n. "If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
(One may also hypothesize a small number of monke...
infinity n. 1. The largest value that can be represented in a particular type of variable (register, memory location, data type, whatever).
2. `minus infinity': The smallest such value, ...
inflate vt. To decompress or puff a file. Rare among Internet hackers, used primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types.
Infocom n.
initgame /in-it'gaym/ n.
insanely great adj. [Mac community, from Steve Job

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