erlang
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1. erlang - Noun
2. Erlang - Proper noun
Meaning
a unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system
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A benchmark with 20 million processes has been successfully performed. citation Erlang has supported symmetric multiprocessing since release R11B of May 2006.
A distant relative provided free board and lodging, and Erlang prepared for and took the University of Copenhagen entrance examination in 1896, and passed with distinction.
A message may comprise any Erlang structure, including primitives (integers, floats, characters, atoms), tuples, lists, and functions.
As the incoming phone calls are random in nature, help desk agent schedules are often maintained using an Erlang C calculation.
As a result, Erlang was chosen for the next ATM exchange AXD.
By 1988 Erlang had proven that it was suitable for prototyping telephone exchanges, but the Prolog interpreter was far too slow.