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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>religion of CHI</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="relay-rape.html" title="relay rape"/><link rel="next" href="religious-issues.html" title="religious issues"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">religion of CHI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="relay-rape.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="religious-issues.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="religion-of-CHI"/><dt xmlns="" id="religion-of-CHI"><b>religion of CHI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ki:/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody
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religion (see also <a href="../C/Church-of-the-SubGenius.html"><i class="glossterm">Church of the SubGenius</i></a>,
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<a href="../D/Discordianism.html"><i class="glossterm">Discordianism</i></a>). In the mid-70s, the canonical
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“<span class="quote">Introduction to Programming</span>” courses at CWRU were taught in
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Algol, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108
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system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no
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doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshiper noted that a digital
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clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase “<span class="quote">It is 11:08;
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ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN.</span>” The last five words were
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the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the Algol manual;
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note the special pronunciations <span class="pronunciation">/obz/</span> and <span class="pronunciation">/ark´sin/</span> rather than the more common
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<span class="pronunciation">/ahbz/</span> and <span class="pronunciation">/ark´si:n/</span>. Using an alarm clock to warn
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of 11:08's arrival was <a href="../C/considered-harmful.html"><i class="glossterm">considered harmful</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="relay-rape.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="religious-issues.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">relay rape </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> religious issues</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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