Glossary
- 1s Complement Notation
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See One’s Complement Notation.
- 2s Complement Notation
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See Two’s Complement Notation.
- Access Time
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1. The sum of the rotational delay and seek time on a hard disk. 2. The time required to find and return a specific piece of information from disk or memory.
- Accumulator Architecture
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An architecture that assumes one operand to be in the accumulator without requiring the accumulator to be explicitly referenced in the instruction.
- Accuracy
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In the context of numeric representation, accuracy refers to how close a number is to its true value.
- ACID Properties
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Four characteristics of a database or transaction-processing system: 1. Atomicity, meaning that all related updates take place within ...
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