2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  sagan  /say'gn/  n.  [from  Carl  Sagan's  TV  series  "Cosmos";  think 
  "billions  and  billions"]  A  large  quantity  of  anything  "There's  a  sagan 
  different  ways  to  tweak  EMACS."  "The  U.S.  Government  spends  sagans  on 
  bombs  and  welfare  --  hard  to  say  which  is  more  destructive." 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  sagan 
 
    /say'gn/  (From  Carl  Sagan's  TV  series  "Cosmos") 
  Billions  and  billions.  A  large  quantity  of  anything 
 
  "There's  a  sagan  different  ways  to  tweak  Emacs."  "The  US 
  Government  spends  sagans  on  bombs  and  welfare  -  hard  to  say 
  which  is  more  destructive." 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1999-10-12) 
 
 

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