CONSENSUS

Consensus

A fundamental problem in distributed computing is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires processes to agree on some data value that is

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consensus

Noun

  1. A process of that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
  2. General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
  3. Average projected value, as in the finance term consensus forecast.


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