Abstract
DURING the past twenty years many successful applications of commercial calculating and accounting machines to scientific computing have been made. About fourteen years ago pioneer work in the application of the Hollerith electrical punched-card machines was begun in Great Britain, and has led to the regular use of these machines for many large-scale operations. Their most valuable properties are (1) their ability to use the same number on numerous occasions after one initial recording by means of holes in a card; (2) their large capacity, by virtue of which they can add as many as a hundred figures a second; and (3) the time saved and risk of error avoided by having results recorded, either in print or in the form of further holes in cards. Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation By W. J. Eckert. Pp. ix + 136. (New York: Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University, 1940.) 2 dollars.
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