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religion of chi
(foldoc) | religion of CHI
/ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish
parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius,
Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction
to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and
student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac
1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The
religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the
worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she
would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN,
ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five
functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note
the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the
more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to
warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
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religion of chi
(jargon) | religion of CHI
/ki:/, n.
[Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see
also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the
canonical “Introduction to Programming” courses at CWRU were taught in
Algol, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108
system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no
doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshiper noted that a digital
clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase “It is 11:08; ABS,
ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN.” The last five words were the first
five functions in the appropriate chapter of the Algol manual; note the
special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /
ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was {
considered harmful}.
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