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Issue #223 February 2009

Across
1. GIGAWATTHOUR—1 billion watt-hours
4. OXIDATION—Gain of oxygen
5. CRYSTAL—XTAL on a schematic
7. BASM—A built-in assembler
8. REVISION—A release with changes
11. ENCODED—.ENC
13. WHITESPACE—Unused radio frequencies
14. BINARY—Base-2
15. HENRY—American scientist (1797–1878) noted for his work with electromagnets and self-inductance. He invented the relay.
16. ZETTA—10 to the 21
17. FEEDBACK—The return of a device’s output back to the input
Down
2. TOOLCHAIN—A set of linked programs
3. VINCULUM—Horizontal line; 0.33333…
6. ONE—How many miles per hour is 1.609 km/h?
7. BOOLEAN—Operators: NOT, AND, OR
9. ATTACHED—A processor with no I/O connected to one that does
10. DEBUG—Remove errors
12. CURRENT—Electric charge in amps
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