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  2. EBCDIC - Wikipedia

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    Student: "EBCDIC!" References to the EBCDIC character set are made in the 1979 computer game series Zork. In the "Machine Room" in Zork II, EBCDIC is used to imply an incomprehensible language: This is a large room full of assorted heavy machinery, whirring noisily. The room smells of burned resistors.

  3. BCD (character encoding) - Wikipedia

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    Functionally this corresponds to the EBCDIC IGS character (ASCII GS), X'1D'. It is now in Unicode 10.0 at this position, but only the Symbola and Unifont fonts support it. The Wordmark, by contrast, is not a BCD character. Rather, it is a flag bit used to mark the end of a word on some variable word length computers such as the IBM 1401.

  4. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    EBCDIC—Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code; EBML—Extensible Binary Meta Language; ECC—Elliptic Curve Cryptography; ECMA—European Computer Manufacturers Association; ECN—Explicit Congestion Notification; ECOS—Embedded Configurable Operating System; ECRS—Expense and Cost Recovery System; ECS—Entity-Component-System

  5. UTF-EBCDIC - Wikipedia

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    UTF-EBCDIC is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid character code points in Unicode using 1 to 5 bytes (in contrast to a maximum of 4 for UTF-8). [1] It is meant to be EBCDIC -friendly, so that legacy EBCDIC applications on mainframes may process the characters without much difficulty.

  6. Binary-coded decimal - Wikipedia

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    While packed BCD does not make optimal use of storage (using about 20% more memory than binary notation to store the same numbers), conversion to ASCII, EBCDIC, or the various encodings of Unicode is made trivial, as no arithmetic operations are required. The extra storage requirements are usually offset by the need for the accuracy and ...

  7. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    In an internal survey conducted last year by bank auditors, 77 percent of employees responsible for enforcing the institution’s safeguards said they think that management “does not value” their work. The bank released the survey in March, at the same time that it admitted to poor oversight of its resettlement policy.

  8. A Guide To The World Bank - projects.huffingtonpost.com

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    The World Bank Group is the globe's most prestigious development lender, bankrolling hundreds of government projects each year in pursuit of its high-minded mission: to combat the scourge of poverty by backing new transit systems, power plants, dams and other projects it believes will help boost the fortunes of poor people.

  9. Unicode - Wikipedia

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    UTF-EBCDIC, not specified as part of The Unicode Standard, which uses one to five 8-bit units per code point, intended to maximize compatibility with EBCDIC; UTF-8 uses one to four 8-bit units (bytes) per code point and, being compact for Latin scripts and ASCII-compatible, provides the de facto standard encoding for the interchange of Unicode ...