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How many wires are threaded through the cores in a coincident-current core memory?
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8
💡 Explanation:
In coincident-current core memory, each core is threaded by 4 wires: 2 X wires (row selection), 2 Y wires (column selection), plus sense and inhibit lines that can be shared. The total unique wires passing through cores is 8 when counting all signal paths.