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religion of chi
/ki:/ [case western reserve university] yet another hackish parody religion (see also church of the subgenius, discordianism). in the mid-70s, the canonical "introduction to programming" courses at cwru were taught in algol, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named chi. the religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "it is 11:08; abs, alphabetic, arcsin, arccos, arctan." the last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the algol manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.

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/ki:/ n. [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in Algol, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the Algol manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.