The Alticor corporation owns both Amway and Quixtar, plus several other concerns. Quixtar replaced the North American business of Amway in 2001 after the majority of the distributors moved to Quixtar, with Amway operating in the rest of the world.
In information theory, units of information are also used to measure the information contents or entropy of random variables. The most common units are the bit, the capacity of a system which can exist in only two states, and the byte (or octet), which is equivalent to eight bits. Multiples of these units can be formed from these with the SI prefixes (power-of-ten prefixes) or the newer IEC binary prefixes (binary power prefixes).
A type of high-speed memory that a processor can access more rapidly than main memory. central processing unit. The part of the computer that consists of three associated elements: the arithmetic/logic unit, the control unit, and the register areas. chip and pin card. A type of card that employs a computer chip that communicates with a card reader using radio frequencies; it does not need to be swiped at a terminal.