Bob Gurch's definitions

ghz

Short for 'gigahertz'. Measure of processor speed in any decent computer system.

Person 1: My PC has a 3.6 GHz processor!
Person 2: *yawn*

by Bob Gurch August 2, 2004

raat

A word used by Doyce, especially in his favourite phrase:

"'Raatt' then, it's a level thrye"

by Bob Gurch August 26, 2004

¬

One of the least used symbols on the keyboard.

When did you last press the ¬ key? Come on, seriously... have you ever pressed it at all except once to see what it did?

by Bob Gurch August 26, 2004

®

Symbol denoting a registered trademark. Can be written (R) if you are using a crap font that doesn't have ® in it.

Person 1: "Microsoft® Windows® XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft® Corporation."

Person 2: "Who are you, Bill Gates or something? Shut up."

by Bob Gurch August 27, 2004

·

The · is a dot. A bit like the full stop (.), but higher up. Used as a shorthand for 'multiply' in mathematics (because they don't want to get × confused with x).

Equation: 5x² · 2y = 10x²y

by Bob Gurch August 27, 2004

÷

Division sign, denotes the operation of division, one of the four basic mathematical operations. You can't divide by 0 (on pain of death.)

Division Sums:

8 ÷ 2 = 4
9 ÷ 3 = 3
1 ÷ 1 = 1

by Bob Gurch August 27, 2004

‡

A sort of symbolic cross thingy.

Person 1: "Do you know what ‡ means?"
Person 2: "No."
Person 1: "Me neither."

by Bob Gurch August 27, 2004