Teraflop club

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teraflop club
/te´r@·flop kluhb/
Usage: n.
Derivation: FLOP = Floating Point Operation

See Also: Knights of the Lambda Calculus


teraflop club: /te´r@·flop kluhb/ n.

[FLOP = Floating Point Operation] A mythical association of people who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques. Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder. Compare Knights of the Lambda Calculus.

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