On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:57, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> wrote:

> That's exactly what I was going to say but didn't want to quibble.  We tend 
> to call them "quads" at work.  What do you call that indeterminate space 
> between two colons :: where it might be four or more zeros in there? That's a 
> bunch of nibbles, maybe a "gulp"?

I don't call it anything. "The fourth $decided_upon is zero/empty" suffices :)

Though if that gap does not have a name yet, I suppose it can't hurt
to try and think of a canonical name, either.


Richard

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