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Characteristics of Computer

The document outlines 5 major characteristics of computers: speed, accuracy, consistency, data storage capacity, and flexibility. It then provides details about each characteristic. Speed refers to how fast computers can perform calculations and tasks. Accuracy means computers provide precise results with errors only due to human input or programming. Consistency means computers can work continuously for long periods without tiring. Data storage capacity refers to how much data computers can store in small storage devices. Flexibility means computers can perform a wide range of tasks like viewing media, documents, games and more. The document also lists versatility, automation, and remembrance power as additional characteristics.

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Characteristics of Computer

The document outlines 5 major characteristics of computers: speed, accuracy, consistency, data storage capacity, and flexibility. It then provides details about each characteristic. Speed refers to how fast computers can perform calculations and tasks. Accuracy means computers provide precise results with errors only due to human input or programming. Consistency means computers can work continuously for long periods without tiring. Data storage capacity refers to how much data computers can store in small storage devices. Flexibility means computers can perform a wide range of tasks like viewing media, documents, games and more. The document also lists versatility, automation, and remembrance power as additional characteristics.

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Characteristics of Computer

Characteristics of computer means its qualities or features.

Although the computer are of various types depending on their size and capacity but all the computers
have some common characteristics.

As you all knows that a computer has a lot of features or characteristics but in all those characteristics 5
are the most popular.

Therefore the five Major characteristics of computers are given below:

Speed

Accuracy

Consistency

Data Storage Capacity

Flexibility

Now let's briefly describe about all the above listed 5 characteristics of computers.

Speed

Speed is the first major from all the five major characteristics of computer.

Speed of a computer device is very fast as it can perform in a few seconds, the amount of calculation or
anything that we are human being can do in an entire year or more.

2 gigahertz to 4 gigahertz is the speed range of computer device.


Accuracy

Accuracy of a computer is consistent. Computer gives us accurate result or calculation.

Error occurs in result for any calculation in a computer are only due to wrong program or instruction,
inaccuracy in input data etc.

You can directly says that errors in computers can happen only due to human beings. Otherwise the
accuracy of a computer device is constantly high.

Consistency

Computer is a consistent machine, it means that computer never gets tired of working more. You can
use computer to perform your task without any error for any number of hours, any number of hours
means you can use your computer system continuously for 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.

Data storage capacity

Computer can store huge amount of data in a small sized storage disk such as hard disk, CD, DVD,
PenDrive, memory card etc.

Let's give you an idea that now a computer can store huge amount of data in a small storage disk. For
example a Pen drive of 16 GB is enough to store the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Flexibility

It is the fifth major characteristics of computer.


Flexibility means that a computer can work in many areas like you can use your computer system to:

Watch movies or videos

Listen sounds or musics

Play games

See pictures

Write textual documents and save

Open and read anything

and many more

Some More Characteristics of Computer

Here are the list of 3 more common characteristics of a computer system, that are:

Versatility

Automation

Remembrance Power

Versatility

The computer system is very versatile machine. The most wonderful feature of the activities of different
types from simple calculation to the complex scientific operations and computations and is also capable
of preparing the examination marks sheets, bills, letters, documents, and also the design and modelling
of navigating missiles and satellites.

Automation

The word automation is conjoint with the computer for a particular task, the computer does not fully
depend on the user, but it proceeds the task in forward direction automatically till its completion.
Computers can be easily programmed to perform a series of task according to the requirements. The
computer automatically executes these instructions sequentially, if any error occurs, it produces the
appropriate error message.

Remembrance Power

The computer can store and recall the information at any time because of the presence of the secondary
storage devices, But this is not possible with the human beings.

Although the brain of human being can store unlimited data.

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