On 07/14/2010 03:32 PM, Bob Plantz wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 13:13 +0200, Georg Lay wrote: >> Cheng Renquan schrieb: >>> >>> >>> Someone know what PHI means, please tell, thank you. My native language >>> is not English, sorry for my understanding, but if someone really know >>> "PHI", please tell, I will thank you; >>> >>> >> >> Yes, a glossary would be great. >> >> Georg > > This discussion reminds me of my reviewing a textbook some years ago for > use in a programming class I was teaching. I started by randomly opening > the book and reading. If I, knowing the subject, cannot understand what > the author is saying, I believe that students would have problems. The > author used many acronyms. I got stuck on "QAD." After about 1/2 hour of > my searching through the text, I found what it meant: "QAD" = "Quick And > Dirty." I did not select that book for my class. LOL! I love funny abbreviations. I remember Ross Williams' brilliant _Adaptive Data Compression_, where he developed one of the best compression algorithms ever invented, called SAKDC, which (more or less) combined the best existing compression algorithms with a few new wrinkles. SAKDC stands for Swiss Army Knife Data Compression... :-) Andrew.
