Note(s) Attention is drawn to the notes (particularly the definition of the term "variable") on page 1 of these elaborations. In this class: - The term "data" is understood to be synonymous with "information", and the term "information" is therefore not used in sub-class Fulltext...
Hierarchy... Expanded...G06C or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06F. - The terms "calculating" and "computing" are both understood to include, inter alia, operations on numerical values and on data expressed in numerical form; of these words "computing" is used throughout the class. "Computation" is derived from this interpretation of "computing". In the French language the word "calcul" will serve for either word.
- In those sub-classes which include simulators:
- a simulator in class Fulltext...
Hierarchy... Expanded...G06 is concerned with the mathematics of computing the existing or anticipated conditions within the real device or system; - control functions derived from simulators are not in class Fulltext...
Hierarchy... Expanded...G06 but are generally in class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G05, although they may be in the sub-class for the device controlled; - measurement of an individual variable to serve as an input to a simulator is in class Fulltext...
Hierarchy... Expanded...G01; - a simulator is regarded as a teaching or training device proper to class Fulltext...
Hierarchy... Expanded...G09 if the simulator gives perceptible sensations having a likeness to the sensations the student would experience in reality in response to actions taken by him. Simulators which demonstrate, by means involving computing, the functioning of apparatus or of a system are in class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06, if no provision exists elsewhere. Components of simulators, if identical with real devices or machines, are classified in the relevant sub-class for these devices or machines and not in class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06 or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G09; - a simulator may use the same time scale as the real device or operate on an expanded or compressed time scale;
- models of real devices to reduced or expanded scales are not regarded as simulators.
- The term "record carrier" is understood to mean a body, such as a cylinder, disc, card, tape, or wire, capable of permanently holding information, which can be read-off by a sensing element movable relative to the recorded information.
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