Operators vs Operand - What's the difference?
operators | operand |
(mathematics, computing) A quantity to which an operator is applied (in , the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and ).
* 1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications (page 47)
As nouns the difference between operators and operand
is that operators is plural of lang=en while operand is a quantity to which an operator is applied (in , the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and ).operand
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Noun
(en noun)- When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.