(Yes, Dad, those are all computer words. Yes, I had seen them before, but I really liked reading them again).
For a study published online in May in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, they decided to tire volunteers' brains with a mentally demanding computer word game and see how well their bodies would perform afterward.
Computer word and instruction formats are discussed, and a simple programming example is given.
This is efficient because the processor can process the entire computer word in one memory cycle.
A minimum of six months of secretarial or clerical duties involving personal computer word processing or spreadsheet applications is preferred.
Bit parallelism is a mechanism that takes advantage of bit-level parallelism in a computer word at the hardware level.
In particular, when the length of the computer word is a power of 2 (8, 16, 32, 64...), any rotate-XOR function of an odd number of terms is invertible.
These tell a systems designer which computer word lengths are suitable for certain high-quality pseudorandom number generators, and which constructions of a large family of designs provide long cycles, the most important property of such generators.
"I think we'll see the Remington effect," said Selby, answering his own question with a reference to what computer word processing did to typewriters.
Much like vinyl, which has seen a resurgence in the past few years, typewriters offer a tactile sensation that an mp3 or computer word processor cannot.
From the advent of very-large-scale integration (VLSI) computer-chip fabrication technology in the 1970s until about 1986, speed-up in computer architecture was driven by doubling computer word size the amount of information the processor can manipulate per cycle.
