2010 marked the 10th Word Festival and as part of the celebrations to mark the anniversary Scottish Opera’s Five:15 strand, featuring five new 15-minute operas by Scottish composers and librettists, premiered for the first time in Aberdeen.
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Names appearing at the Festival included Nobel laureate Alasdair Gray, Alexander McCall Smith, Louis de Bernières, Seamus Heaney, Ian Rankin, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Lionel Shriver, and Irvine Welsh, as well as a packed series of events for young readers.
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Computers with 48-bit words include the AN/FSQ-32, CDC 1604/CDC 3xxx, BESM-6, and Burroughs large systems (B5xxx-B8xxx, which additionally had a 3-4 type tag).
On the PDP-10 mainframe computer, the BLT (Block Transfer) in assembly language programming, is the instruction which copies words from memory to memory.
Check digits and parity bits are special cases of checksums, appropriate for small blocks of data (such as Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, computer words, single bytes, etc.