A fictional unit of length defined in terms of the thickness of issue #26 (November 1955) of Mad Magazine
Origin
A Polish-language word form adopted as a catchphrase by Mad magazine in the 1950s, and applied to a system of measurement by American computer scientist Donald Knuth (then a high-schooler)
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