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The `archie' Internet service is perhaps the best-known baton program today; it uses the twirling baton as an idler indicating that the program is working on a query. :two pi: /quant./

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.

Had the cistern and the powder-magazine been bomb-proof, and drink as well as meat stored quant. suff., the fort would have been 'in a manner impregnable, if well defended by a suitable garrison.'

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Occurs in stories in the following form: "He started on his thesis; 2 pi years later…" :two-to-the-N: /quant./

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.

It is to be hoped she is: for the novel is a sort of macédoine of Irish history, folk-lore, scenery, and what not, done up in a syrup of love-making quant. suff.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

The theatrical can just as well be done here, and quant. suff. of Cossacks and Turks be manufactured to order.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various