hectogon

English

Etymology

hecto- +‎ -gon

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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