The Unit (was: One-upsmanship (was: Secret Mac))

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Apr 18 11:07:39 2002

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Allison wrote:

> >> How about calling it a Babbage?
>
> An idea!
>
> >Well, I'd rather go for Zuse. Not only because he is
> >German(*), but rather because there is still no basic
> >or derivated SI unit starting with Z, so Z would give
>
> It's sufficiently obscure and I like it. Lessee a 400milliZuse
> system... Yep rolls on the tongue nicely and sounds oh
> so technical.

Zuse gets my vote. Words like Gigazuse (GZ) sound really cool.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 11:07:39 BST