nines
n.— «
If you take 2600 terminals, each with a reliability of three nines and
you figure it out, you find that the entire system probably is on the order…
» —by U.S. Congress Technical Advisory Panel on the Digital Data Communications Network: Hearings , 1981. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
A professor who spent 25 years studying arthropods has some thoughts regarding our conversation about the phrase tight as a tick. This is part of a complete episode.
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