[pdftex] typo in manual?

James Quirk jjq at galcit.caltech.edu
Thu Jul 29 15:06:31 CEST 2010


> My suggestion: invent a prefix, as it is used somewhere else (scaled
> points), insert into wikipedia and use it, pretending that it is
> legitimate  :-)
> 
The usual term for a small unit of time is Jiffy, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time). So in this
instance we have a TeX-Jiffy of 1/2^16 second.

James


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