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Does not compute — and variations on it, is a phrase often spoken by computers, robots and other artificial intelligences in science fiction works of the 1960s to 1980s. The phrase indicated cognitive dissonance on the part of the device, conventionally leading to … Wikipedia
Potentially visible set — Potentially Visible Sets are used to accelerate the rendering of 3D environments. This is a form of occlusion culling, whereby a candidate set of potentially visible polygons are pre computed, then indexed at run time in order to quickly obtain… … Wikipedia
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Essentials of Programming Languages — (MIT Press, 2001. 2nd edition, ISBN 0 262 06217 8) is a book by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand and Christopher T. Haynes on programming languages.EoPL is a text book that surveys the principles of programming languages from an operational… … Wikipedia
Connectionless mode transmission — In a packet switched network, connectionless mode transmission is a transmission in which each packet is prepended with a header containing a destination address sufficient to permit the independent delivery of the packet without the aid of… … Wikipedia
Primality test — A primality test is an algorithm for determining whether an input number is prime. Amongst other fields of mathematics, it is used for cryptography. Unlike integer factorization, primality tests do not generally give prime factors, only stating… … Wikipedia
Salt (cryptography) — In cryptography, a salt consists of random bits, creating one of the inputs to a one way function. The other input is usually a password or passphrase. The output of the one way function can be stored rather than the password, and still be used… … Wikipedia
Connectionless communication — In packet switching networks, CL mode[1] or connectionless communication is a data transmission method in which each data packet carries information in a header record that contains a destination address sufficient to permit the independent… … Wikipedia
Coremark — is a benchmark that aims to measure the performance of central processing units (CPU) used in embedded systems. It was developed in 2009 by Shay Gal On at EEMBC and is intended to become an industry standard, replacing the antiquated Dhrystone… … Wikipedia
