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TERAFLOP CLUB

Specialty Definition: TERAFLOP CLUB

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Computing

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. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: TERAFLOP CLUB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-f-l-l-o-p-r-t-u"

-3 letters: peculator.

-4 letters: balloter, bluecoat, brocatel, brucella, collaret, copulate, culpable, fellator, furlable, lobulate, loculate, opercula, outcaper, outfable, pectoral, plateful, polluter, portable, pourable, preallot, pubertal, tableful.

-5 letters: baleful, ballute, bloater, bluecap, boatful, bullace, bullate, caltrop, capture, careful, cloture, clouter, collate, copulae, copular, coulter, coupler, couplet, curable, facture, fallout, flareup, floatel, floater, flouter, furcate, lobular, locater.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TERAFLOP CLUB


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 45 52 41 46 4C 4F 50      43 4C 55 42

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01000110 01001100 01001111 01010000 00100000 01000011 01001100 01010101 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#70 &#76 &#79 &#80 &#32 &#67 &#76 &#85 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0045 0052 0041 0046 004C 004F 0050      0043 004C 0055 0042

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5439523540464950237465536

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2. Orthography
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