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11Logarithm — The graph of the logarithm to base 2 crosses the x axis (horizontal axis) at 1 and passes through the points with coordinates (2, 1), (4, 2), and (8, 3) …
12EPR paradox — In quantum mechanics, the EPR paradox is a thought experiment which challenged long held ideas about the relation between the observed values of physical quantities and the values that can be accounted for by a physical theory. EPR stands for… …
13Workstation — Sun SPARCstation 1+, 25 MHz RISC processor from early 1990s A workstation is a high end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a… …
14Parasitic computing — is programming technique where a program in normal authorized interactions with another program manages to get the other program to perform computations of a complex nature. It is, in a sense, a security exploit in that the program implementing… …
15AMD FireStream — The AMD FireStream (previously branded as both ATI FireStream and AMD Stream Processor [ [http://www.amd.com/us en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51 104 543 13744 114146,00.html AMD Press Release] ] ) is a stream processor developed by ATI… …
16PLEXIL — Infobox programming language name = PLEXIL paradigm = Multi paradigm year = 2008 designer = NASA developer = latest release version = latest release date = latest test version = latest test date = typing = Static, unsafe, nominative… …
17physics — /fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science that deals with matter, energy, motion, and force. [1580 90; see PHYSIC, ICS] * * * I Science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of… …
18General number field sieve — In number theory, the general number field sieve (GNFS) is the most efficient classical algorithm known for factoring integers larger than 100 digits. Heuristically, its complexity for factoring an integer n (consisting of log2 n bits) is of …
19Edge of chaos — The phrase edge of chaos was coined by computer scientist Christopher Langton in 1990. The phrase originally refers to an area in the range of a variable, λ (lambda), which was varied while examining the behavior of a cellular automaton (CA). As… …
20Christopher Langton — Born 1948/1949 Nationality American Alma mater …
