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teraflop club
/ter@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.