What are the functions of an accumulator?

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The  accumulator  is  the  register  associated  with  the  ALU  operations  and sometimes I/O operations. It is an integral part of ALU. It holds one of data to be processed by ALU. It also temporarily stores the result of the operation performed by the ALU.

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