TI
−
83 Plus Developer Guide Third Release May 28, 200
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Glossary
ACC stands for accumulator.
A number given to a location in memory. You can access the location by
using that number, like accessing a variable by using its name.
A
utomatic
P
ower
D
own.
A
pplication
P
rogrammer’s
I
nterface
the set of software services available
to an application and the interface for using them.
A stand
-
alone application, usually in Flash ROM, with the associated
security mechanisms in place. See ASAP.
Part of Flash ROM. You can store data, programs, or other variables to the
user data archive, which cannot be edited or deleted inadvertently.
As
sembly
A
pplication
P
rogram
a RAM-resident application.
A
merican
S
tandard
C
ode for
I
nformation
I
nterchange
a convention for
encoding characters, numerals in a seven or eight-bit binary number. ASCII
stands for.
A program that converts source code into machine language that the
processor can understand, similar to compilers used with high-level
languages.
A low-level language used to program microprocessors directly. Z80
assembly language can be used on the TI−83 Plus to write programs that
execute faster than programs written in TI−BASIC. See Chapter 3 for
advantages and disadvantages.
A system of counting using 0’s and 1’s. The first seven digits and the
decimal equivalents are:
0 0
1 1
10 2
11 3
100 4
101 5
110 6
111 7
See also Hexadecimal.
ACC
Address
APD
API
Applet
Archive
memory
ASAP
ASCII
Assembler
Assembly
language
Binary
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