Title :

Setting-up early computer programs: D. H. Lehmer’s ENIAC computation

Author(s) :

Bullynck, Maarten [Auteur]
Centre de recherches historiques : histoire des pouvoirs, savoirs et sociétés
De Mol, Liesbeth [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Journal title :

Archive for Mathematical Logic

Pages :

123-146

Publisher :

Springer Verlag

Publication date :

2010

ISSN :

0933-5846

English keyword(s) :

History of computing

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Ordinateur et société [cs.CY]
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

English abstract : [en]

A complete reconstruction of D.H. Lehmer's ENIAC setup for computing the exponents of p modulo 2 is given. This program served as an early test program for the ENIAC (1946). The reconstruction illustrates the difficulties ...
Show more >A complete reconstruction of D.H. Lehmer's ENIAC setup for computing the exponents of p modulo 2 is given. This program served as an early test program for the ENIAC (1946). The reconstruction illustrates the difficulties of early programmers to find a way between a man operated and a machine operated computation. These difficulties concern both the content level (the algorithm) and the formal level (the logic of sequencing operations).Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

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