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Applications of Digital Computers in Mathematics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2017

C.B. Haselgrove*
Affiliation:
The University of Manchester

Extract

Digital Computers can be thought to have 3 parts, the memory, which stores numbers and instructions, the arithmetic unit, which does the arithmetic, and the control, which selects, interprets, and acts upon the instructions. Numbers are fed into the machine by some means such as paper tape, which is prepared by a device like a typewriter. The instructions are put on the tape in a coded form, and may look like something like this:

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1958

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Footnotes

page 259 of note *

Abstract of a lecture given to the Mathematical Association, April 1958.

References

page 259 of note * Abstract of a lecture given to the Mathematical Association, April 1958.