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Definition: Erlang

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.[Wordnet].

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Date "Erlang" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1520. (references)

Specialty Definition: Erlang

Domain Definition
Computing Erlang 1. A. K. Erlang. (The other senses were named after him). 2. A concurrent functional language for large industrial real-time systems by Armstrong, Williams and Virding of Ellemtel, Sweden. Erlang is untyped. It has pattern matching syntax, recursion equations, explicit concurrency, asynchronous message passing and is relatively free from side-effects. It supports transparent cross-platform distribution. It has primitives for detecting run-time errors, real-time garbage collection, modules, dynamic code replacement (change code in a continuously running real-time system) and a foreign language interface. An unsupported free version is available (subject to a non-commercial licence). Commercial versions with support are available from Erlang Systems AB. An interpreter in SICStus Prolog and compilers in C and Erlang are available for several Unix platforms. Open Telecom Platform (OTP) is a set of libraries and tools. Commercial version (http://www.erlang.se/) - sales, support, training, consultants. Open-source version (http://www.erlang.org/) - downloads, user-contributed software, mailing lists. E-mail: . [Erlang - "Concurrent Programming in Erlang", J. Armstrong, M. & Williams R. Virding, Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN 13-285792-8.] 3. 36 CCS per hour, or 1 call-second per second. Erlang is a unit without dimension, accepted internationally for measuring the traffic intensity. This unit is defined as the aggregate of continuous occupation of a channel for one hour (3600 seconds). An intensity of one Erlang means the channel is continuously occupied. (2001-08-28) Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Business A dimensionless unit of the average traffic intensity (occupancy) of a facility during a period of time, usually a busy hour. Note 1: Erlangs, a number between 0 and 1, inclusive, is expressed as the ratio of (a) the time during which a facility is continuously or cumulatively occupied to (b) the time that the facility is available for occupancy. Note 2: Communications traffic, measured in erlangs for a period of time, and offered to a group of shared facilities, such as a trunk group, is equal to the average of the traffic intensity, in erlangs for the same period of time, of all individual sources, such as telephones, that share and are served exclusively by this group of facilities. Synonym traffic unit. (references)
Post & Telecom The name given to the unit of traffic intensity. Source: European Union. (references)

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Common Expressions: Erlang

Expressions Definition
Erlang distribution The Erlang distribution is a continuous probability distribution with wide applicability primarily due to its relation to the exponential and Gamma distributions. The Erlang distribution was developed by A. K. Erlang to examine the number of telephone calls which might be made at the same time to the operators of the switching stations. This work on telephone traffic engineering has been expanded to consider waiting times in queueing systems in general. The distribution is now used in the field of stochastic processes. (references)
Erlang Shen Erlang Shen (二郎神), named Yang Jian (杨戬), is a Chinese God with a third true-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: Erlang

Expressions Domain Definition
A. K. Erlang Computing A. K. Erlang (1878-1929) A Danish mathematician. Erlang the language and unit were named after him. Interested in the theory of probability, in 1908 Erlang joined the Copenhagen Telephone Company where he studied the problem of waiting times for telephone calls. He worked out how to calculate the fraction of callers who must wait due to all the lines of an exchange being in use. His formula for loss and waiting time was published in 1917. It is now known as the "Erlang formula" and is still in use today. Biography (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Erlang.html), Biography (http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue2/erlang/index.html). [What was his name?] (2000-10-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..

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Extended Definition: Erlang

Erlang

Erlang may refer to:

  • Agner Krarup Erlang, a mathematician and engineer after whom several concepts are named.
    • Erlang unit, a unit to measure traffic in telecommunications or other domains.
    • Erlang distribution, a probability distribution describing waiting times in queuing systems.
    • Erlang (programming language), a programming language oriented to developing concurrent software.
  • Erlang Shen, a Chinese deity

See also

  • Erlangen, Germany
  • Erlanger

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Topics by Level of Interest: Erlang

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Erlang 83     Agner Krarup Erlang 10
Erlang distribution 27     Erlang 83
Erlang Shen 22     Erlang (programming language) 20
Erlang (programming language) 20     Erlang distribution 27
Erlang unit 12     Erlang Shen 22
Agner Krarup Erlang 10     Erlang unit 12

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).


Computed Synonyms: Erlang

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 Synonyms of synonym

 1   2.6678   Erlang     Erlang programming language     Erlang unit   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: Erlang

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 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   3.6680   Erlang unit     Erlang programming language     Erlang   
 2   3.6680   Erlang programming language     Erlang unit         
 3   2.6678   Erlang programming language     Erlang         
 4   1.9996   Erlang distribution     Erlangian distribution         
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: Erlang

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Íslenska dreifing Erlangs (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Íslenska, Iceland, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian jedinica mjere intenziteta prometa (erlang), Erlang (erlang), Erlangov izraz za pozive na èekanju (erlang waiting-call formula), Erlangov izraz za izgubljene pozive (erlang lost-call formula), Erlangova formula (erlang formula), Erlangova formula C (erlang C formula), Erlangova raspodjela B (erlang B distribution), Erlangova B raspodjela (Erlang B distribution). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese Erlang (Erlang). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina jedinica mjere intenziteta prometa (erlang), Erlang (erlang), Erlangov izraz za pozive na èekanju (erlang waiting-call formula), Erlangov izraz za izgubljene pozive (erlang lost-call formula), Erlangova formula (erlang formula), Erlangova formula C (erlang C formula), Erlangova raspodjela B (erlang B distribution), Erlangova B raspodjela (Erlang B distribution). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 厄兰 (Erlang), 均方误差 (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 歐蘭 (Erlang), 佔線時數 (Erlang), 佔線小時 (Erlang), 歐蘭C (Erlang c). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Croatian jedinica mjere intenziteta prometa (Erlang). Additional references: Croatian, Croatia, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech jedinica mjere intenziteta prometa (erlang), Erlang (erlang), Erlangov izraz za pozive na èekanju (erlang waiting-call formula), Erlangov izraz za izgubljene pozive (erlang lost-call formula), Erlangova formula (erlang formula), Erlangova formula C (erlang C formula), Erlangova raspodjela B (erlang B distribution), Erlangova B raspodjela (Erlang B distribution). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Erlangsche Verteilung (Erlang distribution), Erlang (Erlang programming language, Erlang unit), Erlang-Verteilung (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch Erlang (Erlang programming language, Erlang unit), Agner Erlang (Agner Krarup Erlang), Erlang verdeling (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish erlangi (Erlang). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Français erlang (Erlang, Erlang programming language), unité de débit de trafic (Erlang), valeur en erlangs (Erlang value), courbe des erlangs (Erlang curve), formule des appels perdus d'Erlang (Erlang loss formula), formule B d'Erlang (Erlang B formula), distribution d'Erlang (Erlangian distribution, Erlang distribution). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
French erlang (Erlang, Erlang programming language), unité de débit de trafic (Erlang), valeur en erlangs (Erlang value), courbe des erlangs (Erlang curve), formule des appels perdus d'Erlang (Erlang loss formula), formule B d'Erlang (Erlang B formula), distribution d'Erlang (Erlangian distribution, Erlang distribution). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
German Erlangsche Verteilung (Erlang distribution), Erlang (Erlang programming language, Erlang unit), Erlang-Verteilung (Erlang distribution). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek ερλανγκ (Erlang). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) erlanng (Erlang). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Erlangsche Verteilung (Erlang distribution), Erlang (Erlang programming language, Erlang unit), Erlang-Verteilung (Erlang distribution). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Erlangsche Verteilung (Erlang distribution), Erlang (Erlang programming language, Erlang unit), Erlang-Verteilung (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Icelandic dreifing Erlangs (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Icelandic, Iceland, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Polish rozkład Erlanga (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Polnisch rozkład Erlanga (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Polski rozkład Erlanga (Erlang distribution). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese Erlang (Erlang), bloqueio Erlang C (Erlang C blocking). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi Erlang (Erlang, Erlang programming language). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish erlanguio (Erlang), distribución de Erlang (Erlang distribution), fórmula B de Erlang (Erlang b formula), tablas Erlang C y B (Erlang c and b tables). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea erlangi (Erlang). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi erlangi (Erlang). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska Erlang (Erlang, Erlang programming language). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish Erlang (Erlang, Erlang programming language). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, Erlang. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Erlang

Language Translations for “Erlang” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag Athagerlathagang (Erlang). Additional references: Athag, Erlang. (volunteer)
Double Dutch Agerlagang (Erlang). Additional references: Double Dutch, Erlang. (volunteer)
Leet 32|@|\|6 (Erlang). Additional references: Leet, Erlang. (volunteer)
Oppish Operlopang (Erlang). Additional references: Oppish, Erlang. (volunteer)
Pig Latin Erlangway (Erlang). Additional references: Pig Latin, Erlang. (volunteer)
Terran B Erlangu (Erlang). Additional references: Terran B, Erlang. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi Uberlubang (Erlang). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Erlang. (volunteer)
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