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  • ...nstruction set''' is the set of [[Machine code (nonfiction)|machine code]] instructions that comprises the computer's machine language. Every processor or processor family has its own machine code instruction set. Instructions are patterns of bits that by physical design correspond to different comman
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  • ...ware''', is a generic term that refers to a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work, in contrast to the physical hardware fr ...changes which should be visible to the user. The processor carries out the instructions in the order they are provided, unless it is instructed to "jump" to a diff
    3 KB (406 words) - 19:13, 15 September 2018
  • ...ctions in "direct" or "immediate" mode, a [[Conversational user interface (nonfiction)|conversational user interface]]. JOSS was initially implemented on the JOHNNIAC machine at [[RAND Corporation (nonfiction)|Rand Corporation]] and put online in 1963. It proved very popular, and the
    4 KB (507 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2019
  • ...a specified task, or automate the solution to a problem, on a [[Computer (nonfiction)|computer]]. See [[Computer algorithm (nonfiction)]].
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  • ...ch can hold signed numbers from 0 to ±999. It has an instruction set of 10 instructions which allows CARDIAC to add, subtract, test, shift, input, output and jump. ...”, always containing a numeric "1"; cells 1 to 98 are "RAM"; available for instructions and data; and cell 99 can best be described as "EEPROM".
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  • ...svg|thumb|A Universal Turing machine '''U'''. '''U''' consists of a set of instructions in the table that can “execute” the correctly-formulated “code number == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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  • ...software developers to be effective for the intended "target" [[Computer (nonfiction)|computer]](s) to produce output from given (perhaps null) input. ...same purpose, running in more efficient hardware; that is why [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]], like computer hardware, are considered technology.
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  • ...'''Dive! Dive!: My Search for the Best Undersea Dive Bar''''') is a set of instructions, allegedly from an anonymous sailor, for locating the legendary "Lost Under == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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  • Online diary of [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] for '''Wednesday September 9, 2015'''. ...t clog his wings nor the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun; when the wax in his wings melted he tumble
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  • ...e its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the [[logic (nonfiction)]] of any computer algorithm. The "machine" was invented in 1936 by [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)]] who called it an "a-machine" (automatic machine).
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  • ...!|Dive! Dive!: My Search for the Best Undersea Dive Bar]]''''' is a set of instructions, allegedly from an anonymous sailor, for locating the legendary "Lost Under == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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  • [[File:Shaver Mystery Amazing Stories.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|The June 1947 issue of ''Amazing Stories'' featured the "Shaver Mystery" b ...(June 1947) featuring "The Shaver Mystery" by '''[[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]]'''.]]
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  • ...!|Dive! Dive!: My Search for the Best Undersea Dive Bar]]''''' is a set of instructions, allegedly from an anonymous sailor, for locating the legendary "Lost Under == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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  • '''Machine learning''' is a field of [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]] that uses statistical techniques to give computer syste ...e of computing tasks where designing and programming explicit [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] with good performance is difficult or infeasible; example app
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  • ...nce]], a '''Universal Turing machine''' ('''UTM''') is a [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]] that can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine on arbitrar [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] introduced this machine in 1936–1937.
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  • ...ne''''' (1964) is a science fiction novel by American writer [[Jack Vance (nonfiction)|Jack Vance]], the second in his "Demon Princes" series. ...le is Kokor Hekkus. Hekkus is trying to sell the secret of immortality for instructions on how to create perfect counterfeit money, but Gersen ends up with the lat
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  • Herapath wrote "instructions" for Clifton Cleve's ''Hints on Domestic Sanitation'', London, 1848; and '' == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
    2 KB (327 words) - 09:55, 16 December 2017
  • ...ferent speeds, such that one organism executes, for example, twice as many instructions in the same time interval as another organism. The speed at which a virtual == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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  • ...versal''' if it can be used to simulate any single-taped [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. The concept is named after English mathematician [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]].
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  • ...[Generator (computer programming) (nonfiction)|generators]], [[Subroutine (nonfiction)|subroutines]], and so on. Continuations are the functional expression of the [[Goto (nonfiction)|GOTO statement]], and the same caveats apply. While they are a sensible op
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