English
Noun
en-noun
#mathematics a polygon having 100 sides, almost indistinguishable from a circle
#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
References
Mathworld
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