Chapter 5

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'''Yenta''' 
A busybody/gossip

'''Benford's Law''' 
Heavy handed editing? Not like Pynchon to explicitly define jargon (hash total and Luhn checks slip past without comment on the very next page).

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'''False Lunchmeat''' 
Phony baloney

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'''Korobushka''' 
Traditional Russian song used as a musical track on Tetris. Pynchon also referenced Tetris in ''Against the Day'' [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_119-148#Page_123] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1k_b4KsQ8 Hear it.]

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'''the li'l goombas of Web design''' 
a reference to ''Super Mario Bros.''

'''Fabian's Bit Bucket''' 
In computing, the '''bit bucket''' is jargon for where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the like, is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go, as in: "What happened to that important spreadsheet that I was just editing?" OR "Oh, it went into the bit bucket." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_bucket Wikipedia entry]

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'''Dr. Zizmor''' 
A physician whose subway ads were all over the NYC subway for 30 years.

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'''a single over on Rikers''' 
a year in prison

'''Time is what the Stones call on their side, yes it is.''' 
"Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (under the pseudonym of Norman Meade)and made famous by the Rolling Stones in 1964. The chorus: "Time is on my side, yes it is."

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'''quants''' 
Quantitative analysts

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