Quantum

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
• work breakdown structure