hectogon
English
Etymology
hecto- + -gon
Noun
hectogon (plural hectogons)
- (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