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Free memory is maintained in linked lists, each of equal sized blocks. Any such block is of size 2^k. When some memory is required by a process, the block size of next higher order is chosen, and broken into two. Note that the two such pieces differ in address only in their kth bit. Such pieces are called buddies. When any used block is freed, the OS checks to see if its buddy is also free. If so, it is rejoined, and put into the original free-block linked-list.

If we read the question clearly twice, we can understand that the name of the horse on which the cowboy rides into town is FRIDAY.

Mass means the amount of matter in an object. Anything that has Mass and takes up Space is called Matter.

The Study of Matter and and how matter changes is called Chemistry.

Matter has some mass and occupies some space. Space occupied by an object is called its Volume.