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religion of CHI
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/ki:/ , n. [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius , Discordianism ). In the mid-70s, the canonical Introduction to Programming courses at CWRU were taught in Algol, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshiper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN. The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the Algol manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /arksin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /arksi:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
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