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• wo-to-the-N quant. An amount much larger than N but smaller than infinity.
  I have 2-to-the-N things to do before I can go out for lunch" means you probably won't show up....
• crumb: n. Two binary digits; a {quad}. Larger than a {bit}, smaller than a {nybble}.
  Considered silly. Syn. {tayste}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ime T: /ti:m T/ n. 1. An unspecified but usually well-understood time, often used in conjunction with a later time T+1.
  "We'll meet on campus at time T or at Louie's at time T+1" means, in the context of going out for dinne...
• firefighting: n. 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems.
  An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?...
• N: /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
  "There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• front end: n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end').
  2. What you're talking to when you have a conversation with someone who is making replies without paying attention....
• infinity: n. 1. The largest value that can be represented in a particular type of variable (register, memory location, data type, whatever).
  2. `minus infinity': The smallest such value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity....
• livelock: /li:v'lok/ n. A situation in which some critical stage of a task is unable to finish because its clients perpetually create more work for it to do after they have been serviced but before it can clear its queue.
  Differs from {deadlock} in that the process is not blocked or waiting for anything, but has a virtually infinite amount of work to do and can never catch up....