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Model of computation in computer science

In theoretical computer science, the word RAM model is a model of computation in which a random-access machine does arithmetic and bitwise operations on a word of w bits. Michael Fredman and Dan Willard created it in 1990 to simulate programming languages like C. Wikipedia →

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