Operands in a sentence

Notation Expressions as operands Operands may be complex, and may consist of expressions also made up of operators with operands.

An agent expression such as action2 (?, y) with some operands closed and some open corresponds to a version of the original operation curried on the closed operands.

Because one operator and two operands are removed and one operand is added, there is a net loss of one operator and one operand, which still leaves an expression with N operators and N + 1 operands, thus allowing the iterative process to continue.

Bit test operations have also been added, performing a logical AND function between operands, setting the correct conditions codes, but not modifying the operands.

If some of the operands are given implicitly, fewer operands need be specified in the instruction.

In more complex expressions, the operators still precede their operands, but the operands may themselves be nontrivial expressions including operators of their own.

Number of operands Instruction sets may be categorized by the maximum number of operands explicitly specified in instructions.

Therefore, efficient 8088 (and 8086) programs avoid repeated access of memory operands when possible, loading operands from memory into registers to work with them there and storing back only the finished results.

The System/360 machine-code instructions are 2 bytes long (no memory operands), 4 bytes long (one operand), or 6 bytes long (two operands).

A carry occurs when the result of an addition or subtraction, considering the operands and result as unsigned numbers, does not fit in the result.

An overflow proper occurs when the result does not have the sign that one would predict from the signs of the operands (e.g. a negative result when adding two positive numbers).

Arithmetic operations could therefore often have results as well as operands directly in memory (in addition to register or immediate).

A stack machine has most or all of its operands on an implicit stack.

A typical reverse-polish assembler prepares the operands on the stack and have the mnemonic copy the whole instruction into memory as the last step.

Consequently, the number of operands encoded in an instruction may differ from the mathematically necessary number of arguments for a logical or arithmetic operation (the arity ).

Due to a compact encoding inspired by 8-bit processors, most instructions are one-address or two-address operations, which means that the result is stored in one of the operands.

Each instruction specifies some number of operands (registers, memory locations, or immediate values) explicitly.

Floating-point operations on a signaling NaN (sNaN) signal the invalid operation exception, the default exception action is then the same as for qNaN operands and they produce a qNaN if producing a floating-point result.

For 8-bit operations with two operands, the other operand can be either an immediate value, another 8-bit register, or a memory byte addressed by the 16-bit register pair HL.

For instance, the same ALU is often used to calculate an effective address as well as computing the result from the actual operands (e.