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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Appeal for meaning of an acronym -- help!
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Date: 28 Oct 88 09:38:33 GMT
References: <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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In article <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>  writes:
>I'm trying to locate the following reference, and others from this source:

>	R. T. Gregory, "The use of finite-segment P-adic arithmetic for exact
>	computations," BIT, vol. 18, pp. 282-300, 1978. 

>What the hell does BIT stand for?  I've asked professors, fellow students,
>and looked at dictionaries of acronyms in the library.  Help!

It's a computer science journal; each issue tends to be about half
numerical analysis, half general CS.  Definitely one of the good journals.
The original title was (I apologise in advance for the spelling; I do not
know any Scandinavian language) "Nordiske Tidshrift fur Informations-
Behandlung".  (read the acronym backwards...)  Early issues were in a mix
of languages, but they ended up with all the articles in English.