BLOCK TRANSFER COMPUTATIONS


Meaning of BLOCK TRANSFER COMPUTATIONS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

[from the television series "Dr. Who"] Computations so fiendishly subtle and complex that they could not be performed by machines. Used to refer to any task that should be expressible as an algorithm in theory, but isn't. (The Z80's LDIR instruction, "Computed Block Transfer with increment", may also be relevant.)

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