in reply to max random

Hi,

Silly me, but, because of a brain f*rt, I had to look up PRNG on wikipedia.

It seems I'm having more and more trouble remembering all those tla's.

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Re^2: max random
by Eyck (Priest) on Sep 27, 2005 at 06:55 UTC 
    perl -le 'print length("PRNG")'

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    FOUR letter acronym?

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      My mistake, I should have linked to the jargon file, especially entry 2. The jargon file states that a TLA can have more than 3 letters!

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      TLA: Three Letter Acronym
      ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym
      DETLA: Double Extended Three Letter Acronym

      'TLA' is a TLA, 'ETLA' is a ETLA and 'DETLA' is a DETLA.

      AM

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