From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 17:13:59 MDT
At 01:05 AM 8/30/02 +0200, Serafino wrote:
>"Gosh" numbers (after Fredrick Pohl ) are numbers
>that represent more than one quantity.
My recollection of Pohl's original discussion is that this was his term for
dimensionless numbers, ratios that show up most unexpectedly in different
situations apparently implying some common cause.
Damien Broderick
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