Punched card methods in scientific computation
by W. J. Eckert · first published 1940
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…two unrelated Eckerts in early computing. Wallace Eckert was an astronomer at Columbia who figured out crazy ways to use punch card accounting machines to do scientific computation, and wrote the book "Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation". Presper Eckert, who was unrelated to Wallace Eckert, is the better-known co-designer of the groundbreaking ENIAC computer (along with Mauchly). They then designed the UNIVAC I, basically the first…
on “TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers” ↗…calculations from the early twentieth century, back when computer was a job title and job runtime was measured in weeks... ===Update=== Couldn't find the one I was looking for, but I did dig up Eckert, Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation (1940). From Chapter VII "The Multiplication of Series": p.68 "By a continuation of this process we obtain about 100 groups of cards each with its rate card. Since the capacity of the multiplier is…
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