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Etymology
hecto- + -gon
Noun
hectogon (plural hectogons)
- (geometry) a polygon having a hundred sides
- (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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