On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Tom Hukins wrote:
> I wonder what the value should be for a trilobyte.
/me, impressed by this riff, tries to pick up from there...
$ grep 'byte$' /usr/share/dict/words
presbyte
$ dict presbyte
1 definition found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Presbyte \Pres"byte\, n. [Gr. ? an old man.]
Same as {Presbyope}.
$ dict presbyope
2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Presbyope \Pres"by*ope\, n. (Med.)
One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
presbyope
n : a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted
resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the
elasticity of the crystalline lens
$
/me gives up
So, how 'bout them milli-Helens?
--
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://devers.homeip.net:8080/resume/
Turing machine, n. [After Alan M. Turing (1912-1954), British
mathematician and computer pioneer.]
The earliest but still the fastest and most reliable computing system
ever conceived. "Dis maschine vill run und run" (K. Godel).
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
