VLVL(5) Vocabulary

[Dave Monroe]

Had the same idea (though I was thinking, 512 rooms
per X segment, and, again, note the cojoined Vs there
as well ...), have been looking for an (image of an)
x-shaped old-skool computing tower, but ... 

--- Mike Weaver <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org> wrote:
>  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?

We are always already digitized?  Will be back ...

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