Fortunately, the drill’s carrying case came with a booklet of instructions, which I followed with great success. Many holes were thus produced. This got me thinking: I used to read the manual ...

An instruction manual tells the reader how to complete a task. Sometimes writing is used to tell us how to do things, like in an instruction or a manual. This alien wants to build a deck chair.

The administrative assistants who work for your business are only as good as the instruction manual you write for them. This manual details the expectations of your company and explains the ...

There was a time when owning a computer meant you probably knew most or all of the instructions it could execute. Your modern PC, though, has a lot of instructions, many of them meant for ...

The blend of instruction types in a program. It often refers to writing benchmark programs, which requires that the amount of I/O instructions versus processing instructions reflects the type of ...

“The Secret Lives of Numbers,” by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell, highlights overlooked contributions to the field by ancient thinkers, non-Westerners and women. By Alec Wilkinson “It ...

For an old CPU, finding all the valid instructions wasn’t very hard. You simply tried them all. Sure, really old CPUs might make it hard to tell what the instruction did, but once CPUs got ...

MIPS and GIPS are common metrics today as countless CPUs execute millions and billions of instructions per second. See TOPS and FLOPS. IPS cannot be used to compare different CPU architectures.

Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an internationally recognized academic assistance program designed to help students navigate historically difficult courses through additional exposure to, and ...

In her new book, Olivia Laing argues that the lives of all people are enriched with access to land they can use freely. In his new book, Cody Delistraty chronicles his almost decade-long journey ...

A true-crime case that could only happen in Florida is at the heart of Mikita Brottman’s “Guilty Creatures.” By Kelly McMasters “The Secret Lives of Numbers,” by Kate Kitagawa and ...