Superb! Can I post it on iIi14iIn.com?
Barry
At 03:15 PM 1/23/2003 -0600, Peter_Constable@... wrote:
On 01/23/2003 10:47:08 AM Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
><p class="off-topic">Well, there's a colleague of mine who once mistakenly
>used it for referring to "Pentium IIII" CPUs (even "IV" would have been
>wrong, since Intel uses the Arabic 4 to refer to the CPU). This became a
>famous internal joke, and in internal emails we still tend to use things
>like "IIIIIIII" for 8.</p>
I can just imagine this happening when talking about i18n:
iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIn
which might in turn be abbreviated as iI16In, leading to
iIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIn, which could be abbreviated as iIi14iIn...
- Peter
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