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- From: dolan@nrlmry.navy.mil (Kent Paul Dolan)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: trilobyte or trilobite?
- Message-ID: <9209101723.AA02813@helium>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 17:27:52 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Christoper Williams asks:
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- > how big is a trilobyte?
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- If memory serves, up to about three meters long. At the conversion via
- e=mc^2, more than enough energy to store a slew* of information.
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- > what is the sound of a non-trilobyte being filled with a day's news spool?
-
- Quite like the sound of a bit-bucket being emptied.
-
- Each involves the transfer of a slew of bits which have lost their value
- through overuse.
-
- Kent, the man from xanth.
- "The Birthright of humankind is the stars!"
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- (*) "slew" - technical term of art for "a very large number"; see Xanth
- series #12, _Isle of View_, for the exact reference.
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- Could it be our boy's done something rash, like let old habits take over his
- spelling gland?**
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- (**) - "spelling gland" -- an organ peculiar to xanthian magicians.
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- Ignore the header, and don't expect me to see a news reply. Use email to:
- <dolan@nrlmry.navy.mil> or <dolan@192.138.87.240>
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