BANG file

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A BANG file[1](balanced and nested grid file) is a point access method which divides space into a nonperiodic grid. Each spatial dimension is divided by a linear hash. Cells may intersect, and points may be distributed between them.

Another meaning

In some early ICL mainframe computers, a bang file was a temporary data storage file whose name began with a ! character (which is sometimes nicknamed "bang") and automatically deleted when the run or user session ended.

See also

  • twin grid file.

References

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.77.7345&rep=rep1&type=pdf