ruler

n 1: a person who rules or commands

2: a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge

that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring

lengths [syn: {rule}]

EULER

[Named after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler

(1707-1783)] A revision of {ALGOL} by {Niklaus Wirth}. A

small predecessor of {Pascal}.

["EULER: A Generalisation of ALGOL and Its Formal Definition",

N. Wirth, CACM 9(1) (Jan 1966) and 9(2) (Feb 1966)].