Computer-assisted gaming Computer-aided role-playing game programs are designed to help game masters and players alike. Those programs range from acting as convenient format for a character sheet; or other game materials; all the way up to full automation of the game mechanics of a role-playing game system . This is especially useful for character creation/maintenance and rules resolutions for complex simulationist games. There are multiple poker tools that allow players to do statistical analysis of games. An example is a poker calculator, which determines the player's probability of winning, losing, or tying a hand. Another example of computer-assisted gaming growing in popularity
Acronym was formed from the Greek words , ', "topmost, extreme" and , ', "name.") For example, the army offense of being "absent without official leave" was abbreviated to "A.W.O.L." in reports, but when pronounced as a word ("awol"), it became an acronym. While initial letters are commonly used to form an acronym, the original definition was "a word made from the initial letters or syllables of other words", for example UNIVAC from UNIVersal Automatic Computer. In English, acronyms "pronounced as words" may be a 20th-century phenomenon. Linguist David Wilton in "Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends" claims that "forming words