What is a cache and where do I find it?

Question

Yahoo won't let me in to literati.....it keeps saying I have stale cache delete manually in my browser....what is this cache and where do I find it?

Answer 1

Cache is temporary storage that your browser uses when surfing the internet. You can clear out your cache by going into Tools->Options and deleting the temporary internet files.

Answer 2

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In computer science, a cache (pronounced "cash" /kæʃ/ or /kaʃ/[citation needed]) is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive (usually in terms of access time) to fetch or compute relative to reading the cache. Once the data is stored in the cache, future use can be made by accessing the cached copy rather than re-fetching or recomputing the original data, so that the average access time is lower.

Caches have proven to be extremely effective in many areas of computing because access patterns in typical computer applications have locality of reference. There are several kinds of locality, but this article primarily deals with data that are accessed close together in time. The data might or might not be located physically close to each other.

Answer 3

It would help if we knew what browser you were running. For example, (I believe) on IE 7 if you go to Tools, Internet Options, Delete, and then click on delete files next too "Temporary Internet Files" it should take care of the problem.