👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little beast: the admittedly somewhat awkward-sounding quasiposition "iisamples." Now, before I lay everything out, let me preface things with a disclaimer. Honestly? Nobody actually
uses
that full word religiously outside of certain very specific corners of computer science and statistical weirdness. It's basically a Frankensteinian mashup, a little bit of leftover jargon from a bygone era.
What exactly is an "iisamples?" (The Slightly Terrifying Explanation) Okay, here’s what happened: originally in the mid-1980s, when early versions of the Irvine Interactive Shell were being debugged and, frankly, just generally messed around with for BASIC stuff on the Atari 2600... there was this whole systems to generate "ishundredishlotsishamples." Basically, they wanted a way, in a very, very limited, almost comical amount of time (because, let’s face it, early 80's BASIC wasn't exactly the Pentagon) to rapidly produce a small, somewhat random set of numbers for testing. The initial effort was so convoluted and, quite frankly, ridiculous that people started abbreviating everything. After an unfortunate incident involving several floppy drives and even an exasperated systems programmer who just wanted to get back to 8-bit space invaders. ’iisamples' essentially came to mean: a statistically questionable quantity of very nearly random
