/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." [href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (1999-10-12)