bit decay: n. See {bit rot}. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.

:bit decay: n. See {bit rot}. People with a physics background
tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay. See
also {computron}, {quantum bogodynamics}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary

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• bit decay n. See bit rot. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also computron, quantum...
• bit rot: n. Also {bit decay}. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed,
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains...
• quantum bogodynamics: /kwon'tm boh`goh-di:-nam'iks/ n.
  A theory that characterizes the universe in terms...
• psyton: /si:'ton/ [TMRC] n. The elementary particle carrying the sinister force.
  The probability of a process losing is proportional...
• link rot n. The natural decay of web links as the sites they're connected to change or die.
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• bit rot n. [common] Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed,
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains...
• alpha particles n.
  See bit rot...
• trit: /trit/ [by analogy with `bit'] n. One base-3 digit;
  the amount of information conveyed by a selection...
• bogon /boh'gon/ n. [very common; by analogy with proton/electron/neutron,
  but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity...