VLVL(5) Vocabulary

[Mike Weaver]

 From Toby:
>  Pynchon describes the Dark Ocean Hotel as being
>"a towering dihedral wallful of 2,048 rooms with identical lanais
>cantilevered into blue space, all facing the Pacific."
>
>"dihedral" is defined as "relating to, having or forming a dihedral
>angle." "dihedral angle" is defined as "the angle formed by two
>intersecting planes.  In other words if you looked at the Hotel from
>above it would resemble the letter X. Four thin wings with all "outside"
>rooms.

Which would give 1024 rooms per plane which is the number of bytes in a 
kilobyte being 2 to the power of 10.

To paraphrase Terrance - why?