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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>QWERTY</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="qux.html" title="qux"/><link rel="next" href="../R.html" title="R"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">QWERTY</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="qux.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../R.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="QWERTY"/><dt xmlns="" id="QWERTY"><b>QWERTY</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kwer´tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the keycaps at the upper left] Pertaining to a standard
English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard
after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or non-US-ASCII layouts or a
<a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">space-cadet keyboard</i></a> or APL keyboard.</p></dd><dd><p>Historical note: The QWERTY layout is a fine example of a
<a href="../F/fossil.html"><i class="glossterm">fossil</i></a>. It is sometimes said that it was designed
to slow down the typist, but this is wrong; it was designed to allow
<span class="emphasis"><em>faster</em></span> typing &#8212; under a constraint now long
obsolete. In early typewriters, fast typing using nearby type-bars jammed
the mechanism. So Sholes fiddled the layout to separate the letters of
many common digraphs (he did a far from perfect job, though;
&#8216;th&#8217;, &#8216;tr&#8217;, &#8216;ed&#8217;, and &#8216;er&#8217;,
for example, each use two nearby keys). Also, putting the letters of
&#8216;typewriter&#8217; on one line allowed it to be typed with particular
speed and accuracy for <a href="../D/demo.html"><i class="glossterm">demo</i></a>s. The jamming problem
was essentially solved soon afterward by a suitable use of springs, but the
keyboard layout lives on.</p><p>The QWERTY keyboard has also spawned some unhelpful economic myths
about how technical standards get and stay established; see <a href="http://reason.com/9606/Fe.QWERTY.html" target="_top">http://www.reasonmag.com/9606/Fe.QWERTY.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="qux.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../R.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">qux </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> R</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Quirk objection</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quine.html" title="quine"/><link rel="next" href="quote-chapter-and-verse.html" title="quote chapter and verse"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Quirk objection</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quine.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quote-chapter-and-verse.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Quirk-objection"/><dt xmlns="" id="Quirk-objection"><b>Quirk objection</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">interj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Named for Captain Gym Z. Quirk, the first to raise it.]
&#8220;<span class="quote">Objection! Assumes organ not in evidence!</span>&#8221; Used in
<tt class="systemitem">news.admin.net-abuse.email</tt> to
point out that a comment assumes the presence of something whose existence
has not been proven, such as a spammer's brain or gonads. This is not used
to refer to things that are definitely proven <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> to
exist, such as a spammer's ethics. It's applicable to enough postings
there that a poster wishing to raise the objection often need merely say
&#8220;<span class="quote">ObQuirk!</span>&#8221;, an instance of the <a href="../O/Ob-.html"><i class="glossterm">Ob-</i></a>
convention.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quote-chapter-and-verse.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quote chapter and verse</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quad</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="next" href="quadruple-bucky.html" title="quadruple bucky"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quad</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../Q.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quadruple-bucky.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quad"/><dt xmlns="" id="quad"><b>quad</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Two bits; syn. for <a href="quarter.html"><i class="glossterm">quarter</i></a>,
<a href="../C/crumb.html"><i class="glossterm">crumb</i></a>, <a href="../T/tayste.html"><i class="glossterm">tayste</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A four-pack of anything (compare <a href="../H/hex.html"><i class="glossterm">hex</i></a>,
sense 2). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. The rectangle or box glyph used in the APL language for various
arcane purposes mostly related to I/O. Former Ivy-Leaguers and Oxford
types are said to associate it with nostalgic memories of dear old
University.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../Q.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quadruple-bucky.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Q </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quadruple bucky</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quadruple bucky</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quad.html" title="quad"/><link rel="next" href="quantifiers.html" title="quantifiers"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quadruple bucky</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quad.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quantifiers.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quadruple-bucky"/><dt xmlns="" id="quadruple-bucky"><b>quadruple bucky</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n. obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. On an MIT <a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">space-cadet keyboard</i></a>, use of all
four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a
character key. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in <a href="../R/raw-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">raw mode</i></a>,
use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift
keys are the control and meta keys on <span class="emphasis"><em>both</em></span> sides of
the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was
to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the
right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key
with your nose.</p></dd><dd><p>Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice,
because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some
character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has
ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like:
&#8220;<span class="quote">Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle.</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../D/double-bucky.html"><i class="glossterm">double bucky</i></a>, <a href="../B/bucky-bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bucky bits</i></a>,
<a href="../C/cokebottle.html"><i class="glossterm">cokebottle</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quad.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quantifiers.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quad </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quantifiers</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quantifiers</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quadruple-bucky.html" title="quadruple bucky"/><link rel="next" href="quantum-bogodynamics.html" title="quantum bogodynamics"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quantifiers</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quadruple-bucky.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quantum-bogodynamics.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quantifiers"/><dt xmlns="" id="quantifiers"><b>quantifiers</b></dt></dt><dd><p> In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI
(Système International) conventions for scientific measurement have
dual uses. With units of time or things that come in powers of 10, such as
money, they retain their usual meanings of multiplication by powers of
<tt class="literal">1000 = 10^3</tt>. But when used with bytes or
other things that naturally come in powers of 2, they usually denote
multiplication by powers of <tt class="literal">1024 = 2^10</tt>.</p><p>Here are the SI magnifying prefixes, along with the corresponding
binary interpretations in common use:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
prefix  decimal  binary<br/>
kilo-   1000^1   1024^1 = 2^10 = 1,024 <br/>
mega-   1000^2   1024^2 = 2^20 = 1,048,576 <br/>
giga-   1000^3   1024^3 = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 <br/>
tera-   1000^4   1024^4 = 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 <br/>
peta-   1000^5   1024^5 = 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 <br/>
exa-    1000^6   1024^6 = 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 <br/>
zetta-  1000^7   1024^7 = 2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 <br/>
yotta-  1000^8   1024^8 = 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 <br/>
</p></div><p>Here are the SI fractional prefixes:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
prefix  decimal     jargon usage<br/>
milli-  1000^-1     (seldom used in jargon)<br/>
micro-  1000^-2     small or human-scale (see <a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>)<br/>
nano-   1000^-3     even smaller (see <a href="../N/nano-.html"><i class="glossterm">nano-</i></a>)<br/>
pico-   1000^-4     even smaller yet (see <a href="../P/pico-.html"><i class="glossterm">pico-</i></a>)<br/>
femto-  1000^-5     (not used in jargon&#8212;yet)<br/>
atto-   1000^-6     (not used in jargon&#8212;yet)<br/>
zepto-  1000^-7     (not used in jargon&#8212;yet)<br/>
yocto-  1000^-8     (not used in jargon&#8212;yet)<br/>
</p></div><p>The prefixes zetta-, yotta-, zepto-, and yocto- have been included in
these tables purely for completeness and giggle value; they were adopted in
1990 by the <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">19th Conference Generale des Poids et
Mesures</i></span>. The binary peta- and exa- loadings, though well
established, are not in jargon use either &#8212; yet. The prefix milli-,
denoting multiplication by <tt class="literal">1/1000</tt>, has
always been rare in jargon (there is, however, a standard joke about the
<span class="firstterm">millihelen</span> &#8212; notionally, the
amount of beauty required to launch one ship). See the entries on
<a href="../M/micro-.html"><i class="glossterm">micro-</i></a>, <a href="../P/pico-.html"><i class="glossterm">pico-</i></a>, and
<a href="../N/nano-.html"><i class="glossterm">nano-</i></a> for more information on connotative jargon use
of these terms. &#8216;Femto&#8217; and &#8216;atto&#8217; (which,
interestingly, derive not from Greek but from Danish) have not yet acquired
jargon loadings, though it is easy to predict what those will be once
computing technology enters the required realms of magnitude (however, see
<a href="../A/attoparsec.html"><i class="glossterm">attoparsec</i></a>).</p><p>There are, of course, some standard unit prefixes for powers of 10.
In the following table, the &#8216;prefix&#8217; column is the
international standard prefix for the appropriate power of ten; the
&#8216;binary&#8217; column lists jargon abbreviations and words for the
corresponding power of 2. The B-suffixed forms are commonly used for byte
quantities; the words &#8216;meg&#8217; and &#8216;gig&#8217; are nouns
that may (but do not always) pluralize with &#8216;s&#8217;.</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
prefix   decimal   binary       pronunciation}<br/>
kilo-       k      K, KB,       <span class="emphasis"><em>kay</em></span><br/>
mega-       M      M, MB, meg   <span class="emphasis"><em>meg</em></span><br/>
giga-       G      G, GB, gig   <span class="emphasis"><em>gig</em></span>,<span class="emphasis"><em>jig</em></span><br/>
</p></div><p>Confusingly, hackers often use K or M as though they were suffix or
numeric multipliers rather than a prefix; thus &#8220;<span class="quote">2K dollars</span>&#8221;,
&#8220;<span class="quote">2M of disk space</span>&#8221;. This is also true (though less commonly)
of G.</p><p>Note that the formal SI metric prefix for 1000 is &#8216;k&#8217;;
some use this strictly, reserving &#8216;K&#8217; for multiplication by
1024 (KB is thus &#8216;kilobytes&#8217;).</p><p>K, M, and G used alone refer to quantities of bytes; thus, 64G is 64
gigabytes and &#8216;a K&#8217; is a kilobyte (compare mainstream use of
&#8216;a G&#8217; as short for &#8216;a grand&#8217;, that is, $1000).
Whether one pronounces &#8216;gig&#8217; with hard or soft &#8216;g&#8217;
depends on what one thinks the proper pronunciation of &#8216;giga-&#8217;
is.</p><p>Confusing 1000 and 1024 (or other powers of 2 and 10 close in
magnitude) &#8212; for example, describing a memory in units of 500K or
524K instead of 512K &#8212; is a sure sign of the
<a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>. One example of this: it is common to
refer to the capacity of 3.5&quot; floppies as &#8216;1.44 MB&#8217; In
fact, this is a completely <a href="../B/bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a> number. The
correct size is 1440 KB, that is, 1440 * 1024 = 1474560 bytes. So the
&#8216;mega&#8217; in &#8216;1.44 MB&#8217; is compounded of two
&#8216;kilos&#8217;, one of which is 1024 and the other of which is 1000.
The correct number of megabytes would of course be 1440 / 1024 = 1.40625.
Alas, this fine point is probably lost on the world forever. [1993 update:
hacker Morgan Burke has proposed, to general approval on Usenet, the
following additional prefixes:</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>groucho</td><td>10^-30</td></tr><tr><td>harpo</td><td>10^-27</td></tr><tr><td>harpi</td><td>10^27</td></tr><tr><td>grouchi</td><td>10^30</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>We observe that this would leave the prefixes zeppo-, gummo-, and
chico- available for future expansion. Sadly, there is little immediate
prospect that Mr. Burke's eminently sensible proposal will be
ratified.]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quadruple-bucky.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quantum-bogodynamics.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quadruple bucky </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quantum bogodynamics</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quantum bogodynamics</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quantifiers.html" title="quantifiers"/><link rel="next" href="quarter.html" title="quarter"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quantum bogodynamics</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quantifiers.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quarter.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quantum-bogodynamics"/><dt xmlns="" id="quantum-bogodynamics"><b>quantum bogodynamics</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kwon´tm boh`goh·di:·nam´iks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources
(such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and
<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers
and computers), and bogosity potential fields. Bogon absorption, of
course, causes human beings to behave mindlessly and machines to fail (and
may also cause both to emit secondary bogons); however, the precise
mechanics of the bogon-computron interaction are not yet understood and
remain to be elucidated. Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to
explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the
presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb. See
<a href="../B/bogon.html"><i class="glossterm">bogon</i></a>, <a href="../C/computron.html"><i class="glossterm">computron</i></a>,
<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>, <a href="../P/psyton.html"><i class="glossterm">psyton</i></a>.</p><p>Here is a representative QBD theory: The bogon is a boson (integral
spin, +1 or -1), and has zero rest mass. In this respect it is very much
like a photon. However, it has a much greater momentum, thus explaining
its destructive effect on computer electronics and human nervous systems.
The corollary to this is that bogons also have tremendous inertia, and
therefore a bogon beam is deflected only with great difficulty. When the
bogon encounters its antiparticle, the cluon, they mutually annihilate each
other, releasing magic smoke. Furthermore 1 Lenat = 1 mole (6.022E23) of
bogons (see <a href="../M/microLenat.html"><i class="glossterm">microLenat</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quantifiers.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quarter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quantifiers </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quarter</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quarter</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quantum-bogodynamics.html" title="quantum bogodynamics"/><link rel="next" href="ques.html" title="ques"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quarter</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quantum-bogodynamics.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ques.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quarter"/><dt xmlns="" id="quarter"><b>quarter</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Two bits. This in turn comes from the &#8216;pieces of eight&#8217;
famed in pirate movies &#8212; Spanish silver crowns that could be broken
into eight pie-slice-shaped &#8216;bits&#8217; to make change. Early in
American history the Spanish coin was considered equal to a dollar, so each
of these &#8216;bits&#8217; was considered worth 12.5 cents. Syn.
<a href="../T/tayste.html"><i class="glossterm">tayste</i></a>, <a href="../C/crumb.html"><i class="glossterm">crumb</i></a>,
<a href="quad.html"><i class="glossterm">quad</i></a>. Usage: rare. General discussion of such
terms is under <a href="../N/nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quantum-bogodynamics.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ques.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quantum bogodynamics </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ques</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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character (<tt class="literal">?</tt>, ASCII 0111111). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> What? Also
frequently verb-doubled as &#8220;<span class="quote">Ques ques?</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../W/wall.html"><i class="glossterm">wall</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quarter.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quick-and-dirty.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quarter </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quick-and-dirty</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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time or user pressure. Used esp. when you want to convey that you think
the fast way might lead to trouble further down the road. &#8220;<span class="quote">I can
have a quick-and-dirty fix in place tonight, but I'll have to rewrite the
whole module to solve the underlying design problem.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../K/kluge.html"><i class="glossterm">kluge</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ques.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ques </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quine</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quick-and-dirty.html" title="quick-and-dirty"/><link rel="next" href="Quirk-objection.html" title="Quirk objection"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quine</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quick-and-dirty.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Quirk-objection.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quine"/><dt xmlns="" id="quine"><b>quine</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kwi:n/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the name of the logician Willard van Orman Quine, via Douglas
Hofstadter] A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its
complete output. Devising the shortest possible quine in some given
programming language is a common hackish amusement. (We ignore some
variants of BASIC in which a program consisting of a single empty string
literal reproduces itself trivially.) Here is one classic quine:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="programlisting">
((lambda (x)
(list x (list (quote quote) x)))
(quote
(lambda (x)
(list x (list (quote quote) x)))))
</pre></td></tr></table><p>This one works in LISP or Scheme. It's relatively easy to write
quines in other languages such as Postscript which readily handle programs
as data; much harder (and thus more challenging!) in languages like C
which do not. Here is a classic C quine for ASCII machines:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="programlisting">
char*f=&quot;char*f=%c%s%c;main()
{printf(f,34,f,34,10);}%c&quot;;
main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);}
</pre></td></tr></table><p>For excruciatingly exact quinishness, remove the interior line
breaks. Here is another elegant quine in ANSI C:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="programlisting">
#define q(k)main(){return!puts(#k&quot;\nq(&quot;#k&quot;)&quot;);}
q(#define q(k)main(){return!puts(#k&quot;\nq(&quot;#k&quot;)&quot;);})
</pre></td></tr></table><p>Some infamous <a href="../O/Obfuscated-C-Contest.html"><i class="glossterm">Obfuscated C Contest</i></a> entries
have been quines that reproduced in exotic ways. There is an amusing
<a href="http://www.nyx.org/~gthompso/quine.htm" target="_top"> Quine Home
Page</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quick-and-dirty.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Quirk-objection.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quick-and-dirty </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Quirk objection</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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from an appropriate <a href="../B/bible.html"><i class="glossterm">bible</i></a>. &#8220;<span class="quote">I don't care if
<b class="command">rn</b> gets it wrong; &#8216;Followup-To:
poster&#8217; is explicitly permitted by <a href="../R/RFC.html"><i class="glossterm">RFC</i></a>-1036.
I'll quote chapter and verse if you don't believe me.</span>&#8221; See also
<a href="../L/legalese.html"><i class="glossterm">legalese</i></a>, <a href="../L/language-lawyer.html"><i class="glossterm">language lawyer</i></a>,
<a href="../R/RTFS.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFS</i></a> (sense 2).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Quirk-objection.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quotient.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Quirk objection </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quotient</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quux</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="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quotient.html" title="quotient"/><link rel="next" href="qux.html" title="qux"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quux</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quotient.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="qux.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quux"/><dt xmlns="" id="quux"><b>quux</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kwuhks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare,
quuxandum iri; noun form variously &#8216;quux&#8217; (plural
&#8216;quuces&#8217;, anglicized to &#8216;quuxes&#8217;) and
&#8216;quuxu&#8217; (genitive plural is &#8216;quuxuum&#8217;, for four
u-letters out of seven in all, using up all the &#8216;u&#8217; letters in
Scrabble).]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Originally, a <a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a> like
<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> and <a href="../F/foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">foobar</i></a>. Invented by
Guy Steele for precisely this purpose when he was young and naive and not
yet interacting with the real computing community. Many people invent such
words; this one seems simply to have been lucky enough to have spread a
little. In an eloquent display of poetic justice, it has returned to the
originator in the form of a nickname. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> See
<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>; however, denotes very little disgust, and is
uttered mostly for the sake of the sound of it. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Guy Steele in his persona as &#8216;The Great Quux&#8217;, which
is somewhat infamous for light verse and for the &#8216;Crunchly&#8217;
cartoons. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. In some circles, used as a punning opposite of
&#8216;crux&#8217;. &#8220;<span class="quote">Ah, that's the quux of the matter!</span>&#8221;
implies that the point is <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> crucial (compare
<a href="../T/tip-of-the-ice-cube.html"><i class="glossterm">tip of the ice-cube</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 5. quuxy: <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Of or pertaining
to a quux.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quotient.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="qux.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quotient </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> qux</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>, after <a href="../B/baz.html"><i class="glossterm">baz</i></a> and before the
quu(u...)x series. See <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>, <a href="../B/baz.html"><i class="glossterm">baz</i></a>,
<a href="quux.html"><i class="glossterm">quux</i></a>. This appears to be a recent mutation from
<a href="quux.html"><i class="glossterm">quux</i></a>, and many versions (especially older versions)
of the standard series just run <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>,
<a href="../B/bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a>, <a href="../B/baz.html"><i class="glossterm">baz</i></a>,
<a href="quux.html"><i class="glossterm">quux</i></a>, ....</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quux.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="QWERTY.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quux </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> QWERTY</td></tr></table></div></body></html>