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Founded in 1946, the IEEE Computer Society is a professional organization for computing professionals. Based in Washington, DC, it's the largest of IEEE’s 38 societies organized under the IEEE Technical Activities Board. The IEEE Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and ...
A data type whose members can assume real numbers as values and can be operated on by real number arithmetic operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root.
Industry:Computer; Software
A data type whose members can assume the values of specified characters and can be operated on by character operators, such as concatenation.
Industry:Computer; Software
A data type whose structure and possible values are defined but are not revealed to the user of the type. See also; information hiding.
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A data type, each of whose members consists of a single, nondecomposable data item.
Industry:Computer; Software
A data type, each of whose members consists of a single, nondecomposable data item.
Industry:Computer; Software
A data value that corresponds to a minimum or maximum input, internal, or output value specified for a system or component.
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A debugging technique in which a history of program execution is recorded and then replayed under the user's control, in either the forward or backward direction.
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A debugging technique in which a single computer instruction, or part of an instruction, is executed in response to an external signal.
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A design or programming language in which sequences of statements, called blocks, are defined, usually with begin and end delimiters, and variables or labels defined in one block are not recognized outside that block. Examples include Ada, ALGOL, PLII.
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A device or variable that can be set to a prescribed state based on the results of a process or the occurrence of a specified condition. For example, a flag or semaphore.
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