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Using a variable-word-length computer for scientific calculation

Published:07 February 1956Publication History

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In discussing the use of a variable-word-length computer, this paper will be restricted entirely to past history; that is, ideas and practices that are actually in operation. This implies, of course, that only the 702 will be talked about and the implied comparison to fixed-word-length machines is to a machine like the 701.

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    AIEE-IRE '56 (Western): Papers presented at the February 7-9, 1956, joint ACM-AIEE-IRE western computer conference
    February 1956
    174 pages
    ISBN:9781450378581
    DOI:10.1145/1455410

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    • Published: 7 February 1956

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