Faster, Faster: A Simple Description of a Giant Electronic Calculator and the Problems it Solves
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This book explains in non-technical language how a calculator operates, the nature of the problems it solves, and how the problems are presented to...
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This book explains in non-technical language how a calculator operates, the nature of the problems it solves, and how the problems are presented to the calculator. The calculator covered is the IBM NORC, designed and built for the Bureau of Ordnance of the U. S. Navy as a research and development project. The calculator from 1955 takes up an entire room uses magnetic tape reels and card-tape-card machines.
- Format:Hardcover
- Pages:160 pages
- Publication:1955
- Publisher:McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
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- Language:eng
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- kindle Asin:B000L3D04O
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