Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Each data item in a record may be a group item composed of sub-items; those items which are indecomposable are called

  1. elementary items

  2. atoms

  3. scalar

  4. all of the above
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Explanation

Indecomposable data items that cannot be broken down further are called elementary items, atoms, or scalars depending on the programming context. All three terms refer to the same concept of basic, non-divisible data units.

AI explanation

When a data item can't be broken down into smaller named sub-items, it is at its simplest indivisible level, and different textbooks refer to this same concept using different terms — elementary item, atom, or scalar — depending on the terminology tradition (COBOL calls them "elementary items," while other data-structure texts use "atom" or "scalar"). Since all three terms describe the same indecomposable unit, "all of the above" captures that terminology overlap.

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