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 listener who works with computers asked about the difference between premise and premises, especially when it comes to the idea of on- or off-premises computing. Going back to the 1600’s, the term premises has meant a “location” or “site,” but...
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