Quote: computers can perform arithmetic operations exceedingly rapidly, remember a great many numbers, and make decisions on intermediate results

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All [digital computers] can do THREE things: 1. They … calculating machine can do about 500 multiplications of … the same amount of work in two seconds. … 2. They can remember a great many numbers, … a complicated calculation to be performed automatically. The … 30,000 six-digit numbers, and it can recall any … when the machine is switched off, as they … temporary "fast" (electrostatic) memory … 3 They can make decisions. A machine can … determine its future course of operations accordingly. The … then decides which course to take in the …   Google-1   Google-2

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