α is called the affinity, β the inverse temperature or coldness, and γ the free expansion coefficient.

Keep things soft (as in softcoding) wherever possible. Visit a lawyer and make 'parameterisation' your middle name; it'll sound good at parties, and changes to the system will be far less painful.

The whitling and the finner, or finnoc, have been supposed by many to be young salmon.

Whole pages of it are filled with masses of figures, generally single numbers added up in batches, and then the totals added in batches again, as though he were focusing some account, as the auditors put it.