May 15, 2003

sagan

/say´gn/ n.

[from Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos; think billions and billions] A large quantity of anything. There's a sagan different ways to tweak EMACS. The U.S. Government spends sagans on bombs and welfare — hard to say which is more destructive.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:31 AM

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