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Information:  - Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing.  - In computer science, transaction processing is information processing that is divided into individual, indivisible operations called "transactions". Each transaction must succeed or fail as a complete unit; it can never be only partially complete.  - GnuCOBOL ( formerly OpenCOBOL , and for a short time known as GNU Cobol ) is a free implementation of the COBOL programming language . Originally designed by Keisuke Nishida , lead development was taken up by Roger While . Latest developments are now led by Simon Sobisch , Sergey Kashyrin and Ron Norman .  - COBOL (an acronym for "common business-oriented language") is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is imperative, procedural and, since 2002, object-oriented. COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL is still widely used in legacy applications deployed on mainframe computers, such as large-scale batch and transaction processing jobs. But due to its declining popularity and the retirement of experienced COBOL programmers, programs are being migrated to new platforms, rewritten in modern languages or replaced with software packages. Most programming in COBOL is now purely to maintain existing applications.  - An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in "NATO" or "laser") and sometimes syllables (as in "Benelux").    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'gnucobol'.  Choices: - abbreviation  - acronym  - census  - computer  - data  - enterprise  - industry  - information  - object  - programming  - programming language  - scale  - science  - software  - statistics  - word
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software


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Information:  - The Russell Microcap Index measures the performance of the microcap segment of the U.S. equity market . It makes up less than 3 % of the U.S. equity market . It includes 1,000 of the smallest securities in the Russell 2000 Index based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership and it includes the next 1,000 stocks .  - The Russell 3000 Index is a capitalization-weighted stock market index, maintained by FTSE Russell, that seeks to be a benchmark of the entire U.S stock market. It measures the performance of the 3,000 largest publicly held companies incorporated in America and is based on market capitalization. It represents approximately 98% of the American public equity market. The stocks of the Russell 3000 Index have a weighted average market capitalization of about $126 billion; the median market capitalization is approximately $1.6 billion. The index was launched on January 1, 1984.  - The Russell 2000 Index is a small-cap stock market index of the bottom 2,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index.  - A stock index or stock market index is a measurement of the value of a section of the stock market. It is computed from the prices of selected stocks (typically a weighted average). It is a tool used by investors and financial managers to describe the market, and to compare the return on specific investments.    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'russell microcap index'.  Choices: - index  - measurement  - performance  - stock market index  - tool  - value
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stock market index