decrement

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Each time you push data to the stack, you decrement the stack pointer.

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the amount by which something decreases

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noun

the amount by which something decreases

noun

a process of becoming smaller or shorter

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for decrement.

noun

the amount by which something decreases

noun

a process of becoming smaller or shorter

Example sentences

Each time you push data to the stack, you decrement the stack pointer.

Either change [i] to [0] in your code, or initialize i with .Count-1 and decrement in the loop.

And if you need to decrement, you can often get away with two counters, that you subtract from each other.

Ports that are incremented/decremented by more than 1 is yet another.

The problem is not the algorithm itself: "decrement and reheap" isn't going to be a performance bottleneck.

Let me decrement it by 2, didnt work, let me change the sign of this expression from positive to negative -...ad infinitum.

If I can't see the little score increment or decrement in response to my up/down vote, I find I have very little urge to actually click either button.

"Several architectures support atomic increment and decrement operations, so there's no need for any lock.

Atomic increment/decrement operations still generate a locked memory transaction of some form or the other at the processor level.

It underlies the predecessor/decrement function for Church numerals which the author of the article presents but chooses not to explain; the idea is simple, if rather inspired.

If the notifier reaches a residential building with a resident resource available, the building will generate a worker agent and decrement its resident count by 1.