New Calculating Wizard (Feb, 1948)
Let’s see 10,000 operations per minute, that works out to about 166.6 hertz. Not mega or kilo, just plain hertz.
New Calculating Wizard
EDSAC, a British cousin of our electronic mathematical brains, such as ENIAC and ED VAC (PS, May ’47, p. 95), will handle 10,000 multiplications a minute. Now under construction at England’s Cambridge University, EDSAC will remember details of calculations and use “judgment” in choosing the best way to reach a result.
GO UK!!!
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