Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!clifford From: clifford@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Larry Clifford) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Appeal for meaning of an acronym -- help! Message-ID: <10620@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 27 Oct 88 16:46:43 GMT Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 13 Expires: Reply-To: Keywords: 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! Post reply, or e-mail to: clifford%eleazar@dartmouth.edu Thanks very much. -- Larry Clifford