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From: tyler@procase.UUCP (William B. Tyler)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Appeal for meaning of an acronym -- help!
Message-ID: <3f54968e.11d1d@comit>
Date: 28 Oct 88 17:30:00 GMT
References: <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: tyler@procase.UUCP (William B. Tyler)
Organization: proCASE Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
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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!
>

You can't be the only person who is confused when they see this for the
first time, so I think the answer is worth posting.  This is probably
the most twisted journal name in existence.  The actual name (except for
some probable spelling errors) is Nordisk Tidskrift for Informations
Behandling.  The cover lays out the name more or less as shown below:

			Nordisk
	       Tidskrift for
	      Informations
	     Behandling

(I may have this slightly wrong, it's been a few years since I looked at one.)
Anyhow, you've probably already noticed that if you read the initial 
letters diagonally up and right, you get BIT.  I don't know what happened
to the 'N' :-)

Hope this is of some help.

Bill Tyler


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Bill Tyler				...(tolerant|hpda)!procase!tyler