average-calculating operation

average-calculating operation

[′av·rij ¦kal·kyə‚lād·iŋ ‚äp·ə‚rā·shən]

(computer science)

A common or typical calculating operation longer than an addition and shorter than a multiplication; often taken as the mean of nine additions and one multiplication.

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