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 (n): a unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system
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9 months ago reesetee said:

It can be both, no?

9 months ago shanglee said:

I always thought Er Lang was a God. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er_Lang.

9 months ago reesetee said:

A dimensionless "unit" representing a traffic density of one call-second per second (or one call-hour per hour, etc.). Named after A. K. Erlang, a Danish mathematician who studied the mathematics of telephone networks.

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