Glossary

: The “↓” symbol, when placed at the end of a set of displayed fraction digits, emphasizes that there are no more nonzero digits to the right; the fraction shown is exact. The opposite of “ ⋯”, which means there are nonzero digits after the last one shown. Section 3.1, page 26.

c-solution: In computing, a c-solution to a problem involving real numbers is the smallest complete set of uboxes that satisfy the problem statement. Section 15.3, page 199.

computational speed: In the context of a particular computing task, computational speed is information achieved per second. Note that this is not the conventional meaning of the phrase, which is often used to mean activity performed per second (like operations per second, or instructions ...

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