Yes, that's explained in the book's title.
The book's title, "Understanding the Erlang Runtime System", contains 25% of the words represented in the BEAM acronym, "Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine".
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The book's title, "Understanding the Erlang Runtime System", contains 25% of the words represented in the BEAM acronym, "Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine".