ENIGMA 4

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Across
  1. 3. Part of a floating point number representing the magnitude
  2. 6. Base-10 number system used in everyday life
  3. 7. Smallest sequence of instructions a CPU can manage independently
  4. 11. Base-8 number system
  5. 14. Part of a machine code instruction that says what to do
  6. 15. Value used to detect errors in transmitted data
  7. 17. Technique where CPU starts next instruction before finishing current one
  8. 19. Compression that discards some data to reduce file size
  9. 22. When a calculation result is too large for its allocated bits
  10. 23. Tiny ultra-fast storage location inside the CPU
Down
  1. 1. Type of memory that uses storage to extend RAM
  2. 2. Fast memory sitting between RAM and the CPU
  3. 4. Final stage of the fetch-decode-execute cycle
  4. 5. First stage of the fetch-decode-execute cycle
  5. 8. Second stage of the fetch-decode-execute cycle
  6. 9. Program that is currently being executed by the CPU
  7. 10. Speed of a CPU measured in hertz
  8. 12. Compression that preserves every bit of original data
  9. 13. Core part of an operating system managing hardware
  10. 16. Firmware that runs when a computer first powers on
  11. 18. Signal that pauses the CPU to handle an urgent task
  12. 20. Part of a machine code instruction that says what to act on
  13. 21. Method used to represent negative numbers in binary