17 Apr
2002
17 Apr
'02
6:32 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Allison wrote:
From: Cameron Kaiser
<spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Feh! Too common, everyone has a few many don't use them.
First it should be dimensionless, those are weird enough. If not then
like DB (DeciBell) which will give it a log or exponential character though
I'd be interested in seeing other oddly shaped numbers.
A possible name? Calcula with a range of values from microcalcula
(watch calc or smaller) to Kilo or maybe megacalcula(Sage! or other beast).
How about calling it a Babbage?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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If a
formula for determining classic computer cool factor gets finalized,
I'd like to create a calculator script on the VCF website so that people
can enter their parameters and have their score automatically computed.
We need a unit or label for this number.
The neuron.