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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20I/O | In computing, channel I/O is a high-performance input/output (I/O) architecture that is implemented in various forms on a number of computer architectures, especially on mainframe computers. In the past, channels were generally implemented with custom devices, variously named channel, I/O processor, I/O controller, I/O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershgorin%20circle%20theorem | In mathematics, the Gershgorin circle theorem may be used to bound the spectrum of a square matrix. It was first published by the Soviet mathematician Semyon Aronovich Gershgorin in 1931. Gershgorin's name has been transliterated in several different ways, including Geršgorin, Gerschgorin, Gershgorin, Hershhorn, and H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence%20system | In combinatorial mathematics, an independence system is a pair , where is a finite set and is a collection of subsets of (called the independent sets or feasible sets) with the following properties:
The empty set is independent, i.e., . (Alternatively, at least one subset of is independent, i.e., .)
Every subse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas%20Cluster%20Server | Veritas Cluster Server (rebranded as Veritas Infoscale Availability and also known as VCS and also sold bundled in the SFHA product) is a high-availability cluster software for Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows computer systems, created by Veritas Technologies. It provides application cluster capabilities to systems r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20hacker | A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, challenge, recreation, or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-particle%20spectrum | The single-particle spectrum is a distribution of a physical quantity such as energy or momentum. The study of particle spectra allows us to see the global picture of particle production.
The spectrum are particles that are in space. This belongs to Raman spectroscopy by Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman. Spectrum particles ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris%20Cluster | Oracle Solaris Cluster (sometimes Sun Cluster or SunCluster) is a high-availability cluster software product for Solaris, originally created by Sun Microsystems, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010. It is used to improve the availability of software services such as databases, file sharing on a network, e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20of%20Atoms%20for%20Peace | The Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) of Thailand (สำนักงานปรมาณูเพื่อสันติ) in Chatuchak district, Bangkok, Thailand, was established in 1961 as the Office of Atomic Energy for Peace. The OAP serves as the main authority for nuclear research in Thailand. The OAP employs approximately 400 people. The research topics and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20counting | In mathematics, constraint counting is counting the number of constraints in order to compare it with the number of variables, parameters, etc. that are free to be determined, the idea being that in most cases the number of independent choices that can be made is the excess of the latter over the former.
For example, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction%20cosine | In analytic geometry, the direction cosines (or directional cosines) of a vector are the cosines of the angles between the vector and the three positive coordinate axes. Equivalently, they are the contributions of each component of the basis to a unit vector in that direction.
Three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20graph | In the area of graph theory in mathematics, a signed graph is a graph in which each edge has a positive or negative sign.
A signed graph is balanced if the product of edge signs around every cycle is positive. The name "signed graph" and the notion of balance appeared first in a mathematical paper of Frank Harary in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored%20matroid | In mathematics, a colored matroid is a matroid whose elements are labeled from a set of colors, which can be any set that suits the purpose, for instance the set of the first n positive integers, or the sign set {+, −}.
The interest in colored matroids is through their invariants, especially the colored Tutte polynomi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biased%20graph | In mathematics, a biased graph is a graph with a list of distinguished circles (edge sets of simple cycles), such that if two circles in the list are contained in a theta graph, then the third circle of the theta graph is also in the list. A biased graph is a generalization of the combinatorial essentials of a gain gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapour%20phase%20decomposition | Vapour phase decomposition (VPD) is a method used in the semiconductor industry to improve the sensitivity of total-reflection x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy by changing the contaminant from a thin layer (which has an angle-dependent fluorescence intensity in the TXRF-domain) to a granular residue. When using granular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual%20override | A manual override (MO) or manual analog override (MAO) is a mechanism where control is taken from an automated system and given to the user. For example, a manual override in photography refers to the ability for the human photographer to turn off the automatic aperture sizing, automatic focusing, or any other automate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20ready | HD ready is a certification program introduced in 2005 by EICTA (European Information, Communications and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry Associations), now DIGITALEUROPE. HD ready minimum native resolution is 720 rows in widescreen ratio.
There are currently four different labels: "HD ready", "HD TV", "HD re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%20and%20beam | The ball and beam system consists of a long beam which can be tilted by a servo or electric motor together with a ball
rolling back and forth on top of the beam.
It is a popular textbook example in control theory.
The significance of the ball and beam system is that it is a simple system which is open-loop unstable.
E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20f%C3%BCr%20Rundfunktechnik | The GmbH (IRT) (Institute for Broadcasting Technology Ltd.) was a research centre of German broadcasters (ARD / ZDF / DLR), Austria's broadcaster (ORF) and the Swiss public broadcaster (SRG / SSR). It was responsible for research on broadcasting technology. It was founded in 1956 and was located in Munich, Germany.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Karn | Phil Karn (born October 4, 1956) is a retired American engineer from Lutherville, Maryland. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1978 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. From 1979 until 1984, Karn worked at Bell Labs in N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcap | In the field of computer network administration, pcap is an application programming interface (API) for capturing network traffic. While the name is an abbreviation of packet capture, that is not the API's proper name. Unix-like systems implement pcap in the libpcap library; for Windows, there is a port of libpcap name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial%20%28measurement%29 | A dial is generally a flat surface, circular or rectangular, with numbers or similar markings on it, used for displaying the setting or output of a timepiece, radio, clock, watch, or measuring instrument. There are many instruments used in scientific and industrial applications that use dials with pointers as indicator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20knob | A control knob is a rotary device used to provide manual input adjustments to a mechanical/electrical system when grasped and turned by a human operator, so that differing extent of knob rotation corresponds to different desired input. Control knobs are a simpler type of input hardware and one of the most common compon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactive%20maintenance | Proactive maintenance is the maintenance philosophy that supplants “failure reactive” with “failure proactive” by activities that avoid the underlying conditions that lead to machine faults and degradation. Unlike predictive or preventive maintenance, proactive maintenance commissions corrective actions aimed at failu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProQuest%20Dialog | Dialog is an online information service owned by ProQuest, who acquired it from Thomson Reuters in mid-2008.
Dialog was one of the predecessors of the World Wide Web as a provider of information, though not in form. The earliest form of the Dialog system was completed in 1966 in Lockheed Martin under the direction of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon-induction | In set theory, -induction, also called epsilon-induction or set-induction, is a principle that can be used to prove that all sets satisfy a given property. Considered as an axiomatic principle, it is called the axiom schema of set induction.
The principle implies transfinite induction and recursion.
It may also be st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiyo-maru%20carcass | The was a corpse, caught by the Japanese fishing trawler off the coast of New Zealand in 1977. The carcass's peculiar appearance led to speculation that it might be the remains of a sea serpent or prehistoric plesiosaur.
Although several scientists insisted it was "not a fish, whale, or any other mammal", analysis o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20transition | The λ (lambda) universality class is a group in condensed matter physics. It regroups several systems possessing strong analogies, namely, superfluids, superconductors and smectics (liquid crystals). All these systems are expected to belong to the same universality class for the thermodynamic critical properties of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musipedia | Musipedia is a search engine for identifying pieces of music. This can be done by whistling a theme, playing it on a virtual piano keyboard, tapping the rhythm on the computer keyboard, or entering the Parsons code. Anybody can modify the collection of melodies and enter MIDI files, bitmaps with sheet music (possibly g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seccomp | seccomp (short for secure computing mode) is a computer security facility in the Linux kernel. seccomp allows a process to make a one-way transition into a "secure" state where it cannot make any system calls except exit(), sigreturn(), read() and write() to already-open file descriptors. Should it attempt any other s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20Mindlink | The Atari Mindlink is an unreleased video game controller for the Atari 2600, originally intended for release in 1984. The Mindlink was unique in that its headband form factor controls the game by reading the myoneural signal voltage from the player's forehead. The player's forehead movements are read by infrared senso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongSwan | strongSwan is a multiplatform IPsec implementation. The focus of the project is on authentication mechanisms using X.509 public key certificates and optional storage of private keys and certificates on smartcards through a PKCS#11 interface and on TPM 2.0.
Overview
The project is maintained by Andreas Steffen who is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability%2C%20availability%20and%20serviceability | Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS), also known as reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM), is a computer hardware engineering term involving reliability engineering, high availability, and serviceability design. The phrase was originally used by International Business Machines (IBM) as a t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meniscal%20cyst | Meniscal cyst is a well-defined cystic lesion located along the peripheral margin of the meniscus, a part of the knee, nearly always associated with horizontal meniscal tears.
Signs and symptoms
Pain and swelling or focal mass at the level of the joint. The pain may be related to a meniscal tear or distension of the k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singly%20and%20doubly%20even | In mathematics an even integer, that is, a number that is divisible by 2, is called evenly even or doubly even if it is a multiple of 4, and oddly even or singly even if it is not. The former names are traditional ones, derived from ancient Greek mathematics; the latter have become common in recent decades.
These nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20Moves | Army Moves is a scrolling shooter game developed by Dinamic Software for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX and ZX Spectrum. It is the first chapter of the Moves Trilogy and it was followed by Navy Moves in 1987 and Arctic Moves in 1995. It was first released in 1986 and published by Dinamic in Spain a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoropter | A phoropter or refractor is an ophthalmic testing device. It is commonly used by eye care professionals during an eye examination, and contains different lenses used for refraction of the eye during sight testing, to measure an individual's refractive error and determine their eyeglass prescription.
It also is used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20Spanning%20Tree%20Protocol | The Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) and algorithm, provides both simple and full connectivity assigned to any given virtual LAN (VLAN) throughout a bridged local area network. MSTP uses bridge protocol data unit (BPDUs) to exchange information between spanning-tree compatible devices, to prevent loops in each Mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentadactyl | Pentadactyl is a discontinued Firefox extension forked from the Vimperator and designed to provide a more efficient user interface for keyboard-fluent users. The design is heavily inspired by the Vim text editor, and the authors try to maintain consistency with it wherever possible.
Features
Once activated, Pentadact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residuated%20lattice | In abstract algebra, a residuated lattice is an algebraic structure that is simultaneously a lattice x ≤ y and a monoid x•y which admits operations x\z and z/y, loosely analogous to division or implication, when x•y is viewed as multiplication or conjunction, respectively. Called respectively right and left residuals,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV-algebra | In abstract algebra, a branch of pure mathematics, an MV-algebra is an algebraic structure with a binary operation , a unary operation , and the constant , satisfying certain axioms. MV-algebras are the algebraic semantics of Łukasiewicz logic; the letters MV refer to the many-valued logic of Łukasiewicz. MV-algebras c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee%20%28command%29 | In computing, tee is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) using standard streams which reads standard input and writes it to both standard output and one or more files, effectively duplicating its input. It is primarily used in conjunction with pipes and filters. The command is named after the T-splitter use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trendelenburg%27s%20sign | Trendelenburg's sign is found in people with weak or paralyzed abductor muscles of the hip, namely gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. It is named after the German surgeon Friedrich Trendelenburg. It is often incorrectly referenced as the Trendelenburg test which is a test for vascular insufficiency in the lower extr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Card%20OpenPlatform | Java Card OpenPlatform (JCOP) is a smart card operating system for the Java Card platform developed by IBM Zürich Research Laboratory.
On 31 January 2006 the development and support responsibilities transferred to the IBM Smart Card Technology team in Böblingen, Germany.
Since July 2007 support and development activiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20Management%20Architecture%20for%20Server%20Hardware | The Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) is a suite of specifications that deliver industry standard protocols to increase productivity of the management of a data center.
Distributed Management Task Force developed SMASH Standard- which includes the Server Management Command Line Protocol spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol%20grip | On a firearm or other tools, a pistol grip is a distinctly protruded handle underneath the main mechanism, to be held by the user's hand at a more vertical (and thus more ergonomic) angle, similar to how one would hold a conventional pistol.
In firearms, the pistol grip is located behind the trigger and generally held... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20drift | In probability theory, stochastic drift is the change of the average value of a stochastic (random) process. A related concept is the drift rate, which is the rate at which the average changes. For example, a process that counts the number of heads in a series of fair coin tosses has a drift rate of 1/2 per toss. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop%20Management%20Interface | The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server computer, by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. The development of DMI, 2.0 version June 24, 1998, marked the first move by the Distributed Managemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Amusement | e-Amusement, stylized as e-amusement, is an online service operated by Konami, used primarily for online functionality on its arcade video games. The system is used primarily to save progress and unlockable content between games, participate in internet high score lists, access other exclusive features depending on the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy%20in%20Oz | Speedy in Oz (1934) is the twenty-eighth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fourteenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was Illustrated by John R. Neill.
This book features yet another island which floats in the sky: Umbrella Island, which flies by virtue of a huge umbrel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20algae | Snow algae are a group of freshwater micro-algae which grow in the alpine and polar regions of the earth. These algae have been observed to come in a variety of colors associated with both the individual species, stage of life or topography/geography. A typical snow algae in the alps and polar regions is Chlamydomonas ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic%20egg | A trophic egg is an egg whose function is not reproduction but nutrition; in essence, the trophic egg serves as food for offspring hatched from viable eggs. In most species that produce them, a trophic egg is usually an unfertilised egg. The production of trophic eggs has been observed in a highly diverse range of spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedron%20model | A polyhedron model is a physical construction of a polyhedron, constructed from cardboard, plastic board, wood board or other panel material, or, less commonly, solid material.
Since there are 75 uniform polyhedra, including the five regular convex polyhedra, five polyhedral compounds, four Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESM | MESM (Ukrainian: MEOM, Мала Електронна Обчислювальна Машина; Russian: МЭСМ, Малая Электронно-Счетная Машина; 'Small Electronic Calculating Machine') was the first universally programmable electronic computer in the Soviet Union. By some authors it was also depicted as the first one in continental Europe, even though th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORTF%20stereo%20technique | The ORTF stereo technique, also known as side-other-side, is a microphone technique used to record stereo sound.
It was devised around 1960 at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
(ORTF), currently Radio France.
ORTF combines both the volume difference and the timing difference as sound arrives on- and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore%20power | Shore power or shore supply is the provision of shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth while its main and auxiliary engines are shut down. While the term denotes shore as opposed to off-shore, it is sometimes applied to aircraft or land-based vehicles (such as campers, heavy trucks with sleeping compartments and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapped%20I/O | Overlapped I/O is a name used for asynchronous I/O in the Windows API. It was introduced as an extension to the API in Windows NT.
Utilizing overlapped I/O requires passing an OVERLAPPED structure to API functions that normally block, including ReadFile(), WriteFile(), and Winsock's WSASend() and WSARecv(). The reques... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage%20making | The origins of meat preservation are lost to the ages but probably began when humans began to realize the preservative value of salt.
Sausage making originally developed as a means to preserve and transport meat. Primitive societies learned that dried berries and spices could be added to dried meat.
The procedure of s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphosis | Anamorphosis is a distorted projection that requires the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices, or both to view a recognizable image. It is used in painting, photography, sculpture and installation, toys, and film special effects. The word is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning "back" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer%20Name%20Resolution%20Protocol | Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) is a peer-to-peer protocol designed by Microsoft. PNRP enables dynamic name publication and resolution, and requires IPv6.
PNRP was first mentioned during a presentation at a P2P conference in November 2001. It appeared in July 2003 in the Advanced Networking Pack for Windows XP, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad%20software | NOMAD is a relational database and fourth-generation language (4GL), originally developed in the 1970s by time-sharing vendor National CSS. While it is still in use today, its widest use was in the 1970s and 1980s. NOMAD supports both the relational and hierarchical database models.
NOMAD provides both interactive and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoreduplication | Endoreduplication (also referred to as endoreplication or endocycling) is replication of the nuclear genome in the absence of mitosis, which leads to elevated nuclear gene content and polyploidy. Endoreplication can be understood simply as a variant form of the mitotic cell cycle (G1-S-G2-M) in which mitosis is circumv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20Imaging%20Device%20Interface%20Language | Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language (abbr. LIDIL) is a printer interface definition language used in more recent Hewlett-Packard printers.
This language is commonly used on HP Deskjets that do not support the PCL printer language. As the name suggests, the language only supports the definition of raster docu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-disk%20synchronization | Memory-disk synchronisation is a process used in computers that immediately writes to disk any data queued for writing in volatile memory. Data is often held in this way for efficiency's sake, since writing to disk is a much slower process than writing to RAM. Disk synchronization is needed when the computer is going... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBSF | WBSF (channel 46), branded on-air as CW 46, is a television station licensed to Bay City, Michigan, United States, serving northeastern Michigan as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Flint-licensed Fox... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction%20site | Restriction sites, or restriction recognition sites, are located on a DNA molecule containing specific (4-8 base pairs in length) sequences of nucleotides, which are recognized by restriction enzymes. These are generally palindromic sequences (because restriction enzymes usually bind as homodimers), and a particular re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20and%20the%20Mad%20Dog | Mike and the Mad Dog was an American sports radio show hosted by Mike Francesa and Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo that aired in afternoons on WFAN in New York City from September 1989 to August 2008. From 2002 the show was simulcast on television on the YES Network. On the radio, the show was simulcast beginning 2007 on W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Domain%20Hash | In cryptography, the Full Domain Hash (FDH) is an RSA-based signature scheme that follows the hash-and-sign paradigm. It is provably secure (i.e., is existentially unforgeable under adaptive chosen-message attacks) in the random oracle model. FDH involves hashing a message using a function whose image size equals the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%2010h | The AMD Family 10h, or K10, is a microprocessor microarchitecture by AMD based on the K8 microarchitecture. The first third-generation Opteron products for servers were launched on September 10, 2007, with the Phenom processors for desktops following and launching on November 11, 2007 as the immediate successors to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosted%20service%20provider | A hosted service provider (xSP) is a business that delivers a combination of traditional IT functions such as infrastructure, applications (software as a service), security, monitoring, storage, web development, website hosting and email, over the Internet or other wide area networks (WAN). An xSP combines the abilitie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia | Tetraphobia () is the practice of avoiding instances of the digit . It is a superstition most common in East Asian nations. It represents or can be translated as death or to die.
Rationale
The Chinese word for "four" (, pinyin: sì, jyutping: sei3), sounds quite similar to the word for "death" (, pinyin: sǐ, jyutping:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20recording | Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. It also applies to sound recordings like electromagnetic fields or vibrations using different microphones like a passive magnetic antenna for electro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Solutions | Motorola Solutions, Inc. is an American video equipment, telecommunications equipment, software, systems and services provider that succeeded Motorola, Inc., following the spinoff of the mobile phone division into Motorola Mobility in 2011. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
History
Motorola Solutions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bispectrum | In mathematics, in the area of statistical analysis, the bispectrum is a statistic used to search for nonlinear interactions.
Definitions
The Fourier transform of the second-order cumulant, i.e., the autocorrelation function, is the traditional power spectrum.
The Fourier transform of C3(t1, t2) (third-order cumulan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DG/UX | DG/UX is a discontinued Unix operating system developed by Data General for its Eclipse MV minicomputer line, and later the AViiON workstation and server line (both Motorola 88000 and Intel IA-32-based variants).
Overview
DG/UX 1.00, released in March, 1985, was based on UNIX System V Release 2 with additions from 4.1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20architect | The systems architect is an information and communications technology professional. Systems architects define the architecture of a computerized system (i.e., a system composed of software and hardware) in order to fulfill certain requirements. Such definitions include: a breakdown of the system into components, the co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20plotting | Point plotting is an elementary mathematical skill required in analytic geometry. Invented by René Descartes and originally used to locate positions on military maps, this skill is now assumed of everyone who wants to locate grid 7A on any map.
Using point plotting, one associates an ordered pair of real numbers (x, y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26-bit%20computing | In computer architecture, 26-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 26 bits wide, and thus can represent unsigned values up to 67,108,863. Two examples of computer processors that featured 26-bit memory addressing are certain second generation IBM System/370 mainframe computer models int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20algebra | In mathematics, an alternating algebra is a -graded algebra for which for all nonzero homogeneous elements and (i.e. it is an anticommutative algebra) and has the further property that for every homogeneous element of odd degree.
Examples
The differential forms on a differentiable manifold form an alternating ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20logic%20symbols | In logic, a set of symbols is commonly used to express logical representation. The following table lists many common symbols, together with their name, how they should be read out loud, and the related field of mathematics. Additionally, the subsequent columns contains an informal explanation, a short example, the Unic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermatrix | In mathematics and theoretical physics, a supermatrix is a Z2-graded analog of an ordinary matrix. Specifically, a supermatrix is a 2×2 block matrix with entries in a superalgebra (or superring). The most important examples are those with entries in a commutative superalgebra (such as a Grassmann algebra) or an ordinar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-matrix%20method | The decision-matrix method, also Pugh method or Pugh concept selection, invented by Stuart Pugh, is a qualitative technique used to rank the multi-dimensional options of an option set. It is frequently used in engineering for making design decisions but can also be used to rank investment options, vendor options, produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci%20prime | A Fibonacci prime is a Fibonacci number that is prime, a type of integer sequence prime.
The first Fibonacci primes are :
2, 3, 5, 13, 89, 233, 1597, 28657, 514229, 433494437, 2971215073, ....
Known Fibonacci primes
It is not known whether there are infinitely many Fibonacci primes. With the indexing starting with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%20extension | Kan extensions are universal constructs in category theory, a branch of mathematics. They are closely related to adjoints, but are also related to limits and ends. They are named after Daniel M. Kan, who constructed certain (Kan) extensions using limits in 1960.
An early use of (what is now known as) a Kan extension f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20CE%205.0 | Windows CE 5.0 (codenamed "Macallan") is a successor to Windows CE 4.2, the third release in the Windows CE .NET family. It was first released on July 9, 2004. Like its predecessors, Windows CE 5.0 is marketed towards the embedded device market and independent device vendors. Windows CE 5.0 is billed as a low-cost, com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20radical | In algebra, a nested radical is a radical expression (one containing a square root sign, cube root sign, etc.) that contains (nests) another radical expression. Examples include
which arises in discussing the regular pentagon, and more complicated ones such as
Denesting
Some nested radicals can be rewritten in a for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Dictionary%20of%20Switzerland | The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse; DHS) is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland. It aims to present the history of Switzerland in the form of an encyclopaedia, published both on paper and on the Internet, in three of the country's national languages: German, French... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstabilization | Superstabilization is a concept of fault-tolerance in distributed computing. Superstabilizing distributed algorithms combine the features of self-stabilizing algorithms and dynamic algorithms. A superstabilizing algorithm – just like any other self-stabilizing algorithm – can be started in an arbitrary state, and it wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.18 | IEEE 802.18, the Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group ("RR-TAG"), is a working group of IEEE 802, the LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMCS). The working group currently has 6 projects on standards for radio-based systems:
IEEE 802.11 (Wireless Local area network- WLAN)
IEEE 802.15 (Wireless Personal area network - ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA%20Digital%20Flat%20Panel | The VESA Digital Flat Panel (DFP) interface standard specifies a video connector and digital TMDS signaling for flat-panel displays. It features 20 pins and uses the PanelLink protocol; the standard is based on the preceding VESA Plug and Display (P&D) standard, ratified in 1997. Unlike the later, electrically-compatib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer%20%28video%20game%29 | Trailblazer is a racing video game developed by Mr. Chip Software and published by Gremlin Graphics for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 16/Plus/4 in 1986 (there was also an enhanced version on Amstrad CPC 3" disc). It was ported to the Amiga and Atari ST.
In 2005 a remake f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMBRelay | SMBRelay and SMBRelay2 are computer programs that can be used to carry out SMB man-in-the-middle (mitm) attacks on Windows machines. They were written by Sir Dystic of CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) and released March 21, 2001 at the @lantacon convention in Atlanta, Georgia. More than seven years after its release, Micro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Cobra | Super Cobra is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Konami, originally released as an arcade video game in 1981. It was published by Konami in Japan in March 1981 and manufactured and distributed by Stern in North America on June 22. It is the spiritual sequel to the Scramble arcade game released earlier in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20sentience | Hormonal sentience, first described by Robert A. Freitas Jr., describes the information processing rate in plants, which are mostly based on hormones instead of neurons like in all major animals (except sponges). Plants can to some degree communicate with each other and there are even examples of one-way-communication ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fractals%20by%20Hausdorff%20dimension | According to Benoit Mandelbrot, "A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension."
Presented here is a list of fractals, ordered by increasing Hausdorff dimension, to illustrate what it means for a fractal to have a low or a high dimension.
Dete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiDimensional%20eXpressions | Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) is a query language for online analytical processing (OLAP) using a database management system. Much like SQL, it is a query language for OLAP cubes. It is also a calculation language, with syntax similar to spreadsheet formulae.
Background
The MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) lan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism | Aposematism is the advertising by an animal to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating. This unprofitability may consist of any defenses which make the prey difficult to kill and eat, such as toxicity, venom, foul taste or smell, sharp spines, or aggressive nature. These advertising signals may tak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalness | Communalness, as suggested by Robert A. Freitas Jr., is a level of an emergent phenomenon which originates from electronic sentience, and represents a broader mode of thinking than just normal consciousness. While consciousness is limited to the individual, communalness describes a complex organization of numerous indi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31-bit%20computing | In computer architecture, 31-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 31 bits wide.
In 1983, IBM introduced 31-bit addressing in the System/370-XA mainframe architecture as an upgrade to the 24-bit physical and virtual, and transitional 24-bit-virtual/26-bit physical, addressing in Syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-bit%20computing | Notable 24-bit machines include the CDC 924 – a 24-bit version of the CDC 1604, CDC lower 3000 series, SDS 930 and SDS 940, the ICT 1900 series, the Elliott 4100 series, and the Datacraft minicomputers/Harris H series.
The term SWORD is sometimes used to describe a 24-bit data type with the S prefix referring to sesqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchimerism | Microchimerism is the presence of a small number of cells in an individual that have originated from another individual and are therefore genetically distinct. This phenomenon may be related to certain types of autoimmune diseases although the responsible mechanisms are unclear. The term comes from the prefix "micro" +... |
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