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o·ta·ku
ōˈtäko͞o/
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(in Japan) a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills.
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A unit sometimes used in computing, the term is believed to have been coined by IBM in 1969 from the design objective "never to let the user wait more than a few nanocenturies for a response".[36] A nanocentury is approximately 3.155 seconds, although Tom Duff is frequently cited as saying that, to within half a percent, a nanocentury is π seconds.[37]
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Pirate Ninja[edit] A Pirate Ninja is defined as one kilowatt hour per Martian day, or sol. The Martian book and movie author Andy Weir revealed in a 2015 interview that the Curiosity rover team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory references milli-Pirate-Ninjas in their meetings.[27]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulum
Scrupulum

Scrupulum, meaning a tiny stone (from scrupus sharp stone), indicates a weight of 1/24 of an ounce or, by extension, of other measures. Metaphorically, the stone is thought to be sharp and pricking, like a thorn. As a weight or a coin, 1/24 of an uncia, or 1/288 of an as As a measure of land, 1/288 of a jugerum As a measure of time, 1/24 part of an hour. The forms scripulum, scriptulum, scriplus and scriptulus can be found, scriptulum being also associated with the lines on a draughtboard.

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