A BANG file
balanced and nested
grid file In computer science, a grid file or bucket grid is a point access method which splits a space into a non-periodic grid where one or more cells of the grid refer to a small set of points. Grid files (a symmetric data structure) provide an efficie ...
) is a
point access method which divides space into a nonperiodic grid. Each spatial dimension is divided by a linear hash. Cells may intersect, and points may be distributed between them.
Another meaning
In some early
ICL ICL may refer to:
Companies and organizations
* Idaho Conservation League
* Imperial College London, a UK university
* Indian Confederation of Labour
* Indian Cricket League
* Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory of the University of Oxford
* Israel Ch ...
mainframe
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterpris ...
computers, a bang file was a temporary data storage file whose name began with a
! character (which is sometimes nicknamed "bang") and automatically deleted when the run or user session ended.
See also
*
twin grid file.
References
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.77.7345&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Computer files
Arrays
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