Which of the Following Terms Refers to the Capacity of a Computer

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following terms refers to the capacity of a computer program to avoid crashing by continuing indefinitely with responses that get progressively closer to a desired end state,that may never be conclusively achieved?

• A) graceful degradation
• B) computational functionalism
• C) algorithmic calculation
• D) means-ends analysis

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Definitions:

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