The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
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.?
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)