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n. (context communication English) A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
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Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language. It is also a garbage-collected runtime system. The sequential subset of Erlang supports eager evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. Erlang is known for its designs that are well suited for systems with the following characteristics:
- Distributed
- Fault-tolerant
- Soft real-time,
- Highly available, non-stop applications
- Hot swapping, where code can be changed without stopping a system.
It was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, developed by Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding and Mike Williams in 1986, but was released as open source in 1998. Erlang, along with OTP, a collection of middleware and libraries in Erlang, are now supported and maintained by the OTP product unit at Ericsson and have been widely referred to as Erlang/OTP.
The erlang (symbol E) is a dimensionless unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment. For example, a single cord circuit has the capacity to be used for 60 minutes in one hour. If one hundred six-minute calls are received on a group of such circuits, then assuming no other calls are placed for the rest of the hour, the total traffic in that hour will be six hundred minutes, or 10 erlangs.
In 1946, the CCITT named the international unit of telephone traffic the erlang in honor of Agner Krarup Erlang.
Erlang may refer to:
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Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929), a mathematician and engineer after whom several concepts are named
- Erlang (programming language), a programming language oriented to developing concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable software
- Erlang (unit), a unit to measure traffic in telecommunications or other domains
- Erlang distribution, a probability distribution describing the time between events
- Erlang Shen, a Chinese deity
Usage examples of "erlang".
Horrible a reputation as the Otranto City slave markets had, Erlang was worse.
First we go to Erlang, then we take a big swing through Granger territory.
Both taverns blamed their prices on the Erlang government's incessant demand for more revenue.
The richest Erlang merchant families have ruled the city for generations.
The barbarian cities get nothing, unless, of course, Erlang decides they wish to trade some of their allotment to the east.
The gold Bart carried, Jake realized bitterly, had probably dragged him into the Erlang Sea in the first place.
Unless they wanted to take the land route two thousand kilometers around the Erlang sea and through Barbarian, Tiflis, and Granger territory, they needed to cross the narrow isthmus.