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| It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, | ||||||||||||||
| before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present majesty's grandfather, | ||||||||||||||
| while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, | ||||||||||||||
| happened to cut one of his fingers. Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, | ||||||||||||||
| commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. | ||||||||||||||
| . . . | ||||||||||||||
| It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, | ||||||||||||||
| rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. | ||||||||||||||
| Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: | ||||||||||||||
| but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden. | ||||||||||||||
| -- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels | ||||||||||||||
| What other computer-related name comes from Swift? | ||||||||||||||