Mul
Proper noun
Meaning
Mul (plural Muls)
A surname from Khmer.
Examples
Accumulator instructions (ADD, SUB, COM, NEG, etc.) took 1.55 μs, MUL 2.55 μs, DIV 3.75 μs, ISZ 3.15-4.5 μs.
Also, the 80286 was more efficient in the prefetch of instructions, buffering, execution of jumps, and in complex microcoded numerical operations such as MUL DIV than its predecessor.
First attested in depictions on a cylinder-seal from around the 21st century BC, citation it was explicitly recorded in the Babylonian star catalogues as MUL SUḪUR.
Intel datasheets for the 8086 and 8088 advertised the dedicated multiply and divide instructions (MUL, IMUL, DIV, and IDIV), but they are very slow, on the order of 100-200 clock cycles each.
Modern-day Aries was known as MUL LÚ.
It is often said that the 1430 pages of the Guru Granth Sahib are all expansions on the Mul Mantra.