Difference between revisions of "Quantum"
From Organic Design wiki
m |
m (quanta is plural not, quantum singular) |
||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[Category:Glossary]][[Category:Nodal Concepts]] | [[Category:Glossary]][[Category:Nodal Concepts]] | ||
{{stub}} | {{stub}} | ||
− | Quantum in the context of nodal reduction, represents change and a minute timeslice of processing. Also called Quanta in the | + | Quantum in the context of nodal reduction, represents change and a minute timeslice of processing. Also called Quanta in the plural, the processing is as close as possible ''O''(1) and should certainly never be ''O''(n). |
:That's right we keep all language specific stuff ''O(1)'', and leave all ''higher-O'' to nodally reducable structure. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 17:15, 19 Jun 2006 (NZST) | :That's right we keep all language specific stuff ''O(1)'', and leave all ''higher-O'' to nodally reducable structure. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 17:15, 19 Jun 2006 (NZST) | ||
Revision as of 05:08, 9 November 2006
Quantum in the context of nodal reduction, represents change and a minute timeslice of processing. Also called Quanta in the plural, the processing is as close as possible O(1) and should certainly never be O(n).
- That's right we keep all language specific stuff O(1), and leave all higher-O to nodally reducable structure. --Nad 17:15, 19 Jun 2006 (NZST)
- See also
- Nodal reduction
- Wikipedia:Linearizability (aka "atomicity" formal term and conditions for infintesimal operations like ours)
- Wikipedia:ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability)
- Wikipedia:Big O Notation
- In project management an indivisible unit of work like this is called a terminal element