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

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Apr 18 12:52:08 2002

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Sellam Ismail 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.
>
> Are you pronouncing it correctly, i.e. "tsoo-zeh"? Or in the Greek "Zeus"
> fashion?

I'm a fluent German speaker. 8-)

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 12:52:08 BST