Glossary
1s Complement Notation See One’s Complement Notation.
2s Complement Notation See Two’s Complement Notation.
Access Time 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 An architecture that assumes one operand to be in the accumulator without requiring the accumulator to be explicitly referenced in the instruction.
Accuracy In the context of numeric representation, accuracy refers to how close a number is to its true value.
ACID Properties Four characteristics of a database or transaction-processing system: (1) Atomicity, meaning all related updates take place within the bounds of the transaction or no ...
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