hectogon

English

Etymology

From hecto- +‎ -gon.

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Noun

hectogon (plural hectogons)

  1. (geometry) A polygon having a hundred sides.
  2. (computing) An individual processor in some parallel processing systems.

Quotations

  • 1992 The processing elements ("hectogons") are connected in a hexagonal mesh . . - J.D. Becker, I. Eisele, F.W. Muendemann (eds) - Parallelism, Learning, Evolution: Workshop on Evolutionary Models and Strategies

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