What is the function of accumulator?

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Accumulator is a 8 bit register , is a part of ALU . It is used for temporary storage of 8 bit data which performs arithmetic operation or logical operations. The result of operations stored in accumulator. Initially , the accumulator is set to 0 and each number is added to the value in the accumulator. At last the result is written in the main memory when all the operations performed.

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