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This has a number of meanings in the computer world.
!!1. An [Acronym] for __L__ibrary __O__f __C__ongress.
-This is a unit of storage capacity or rate of transmission. For example - "our highspeed link could transfer 3 library of congresses [[sic] in 3.5 seconds".
+This is a unit of storage capacity or rate of transmission. For example - "our highspeed link could transfer 3 library of congresses [[sic] in 3.5 seconds". There appears to be no agreement on whether the unit represents library of congress as (a) ASCII text files (which would be lossy, since there are many non-ASCII books and many with images), (b) page images (at some unknown level of resolution) (c) the metadata associated with the collections or (d) the library of congress website. Generally (a) or (c) is used by vendors and reporters, since it results in bigger numbers
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!!2. A field in the [DNS] system for location.
$ host -t LOC waikato.ac.nz
waikato.ac.nz. LOC 37 48 30.000 S 175 17 36.000 E 66.00m 3000m 30m 10m
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xtraceroute(1) will use these records if it can find them. Unfortunately not many sites use them yet.
!!3 An [Acronym] for __L__ines __O__f __C__ode
-The is a incredibly poor measure of the size of a project sometimes used by [Management] in SoftwareEngineering.
+The is a incredibly poor measure of the size of a project sometimes used by [Management] in SoftwareEngineering. The main virtue of lines of code as a measurement is that it is quick and easy to calculate and can be performed on any programming language
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