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Quote: in a digital device, changing a single bit can have drastic consequences; a radical novelty of computers

topics > all references > references c-d > QuoteRef: dijkEW12_1989 , p. 1400



Group:
systems
Topic:
computer as state machine
Topic:
bugs
Topic:
sensitivity of software to change

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The second radical novelty is that the automatic … [p. 1400] Like all digitally encoded information, [a program] has, unavoidably, the uncomfortable property that the smallest possible perturbations--i.e., …   Google-1   Google-2

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