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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Re: History (origin of foobar)
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 09:59:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 09:59:11 1987
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In article <2766@eecae.UUCP> lawitzke@eecae.UUCP (John Lawitzke) writes:
> he'd define a signal named "foo" as a generic name for the line, then
> when this line would go through a complementor it would be "foobar"

	I'm surprised nobody have mentioned this yet, but isn't foobar
simply foo divided by 2 pi?
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Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
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