(thing) by Jargon Sat Apr 29 2000 at 1:03:03

tera- = T = terminak

teraflop club /te'r*-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.

--Jargon File, autonoded by rescdsk.

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