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• bignum /big'nuhm/ n. [common; orig. from MIT MacLISP] 1.
  [techspeak] A multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers....
• platinum-iridium adj. Standard, against which all others of the same category are measured.
  Usage: silly. The notion is that one of whatever it is has actually been cast in platinum-iridium alloy and placed in the vault beside the Standard Kilogram at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris....
• platinum-iridium: adj. Standard, against which all others of the same category are measured.
  Usage: silly. The notion is that one of whatever it is has actually been cast in platinum-iridium alloy and placed in the vault beside the Standard Kilogram at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris....
• Duct Tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
  The only difference is that "May The Force be with you" sounds a lot nicer than "May you be covered in duct tape....
• Skeet shooters do it twenty-five times in nine different positions.
• Bart: Hey, Homer, I found your weights. Homer: [admiring] Oh, the Glutemus Maximizer.
  .. -- Up in the attic, "Brush with Greatne...
• The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
  It has been found difficult, and left untried. -- Gilbert K....
• umber-crunching n. [common] Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  hose that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....
• umber-crunching: n. Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....