Quote: Babbage's analytical engine designed for 1000 variables of 50 digits apiece; 100 digit intermediate results

Quotation

In the drawings I have prepared I proposed to have a thousand variables, upon each of which any number not having more than fifty figures can be placed. This machine would multiply 50 figures by other 50, and print the product of 100 figures. Or it would divide any number having 100 figures by any other of 50 figures, and print the quotient of 50 figures. Allowing but a moderate velocity for the machine, the time occupied by either of these operations would be about one minute.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

Additional Titles

Quote: the operations of Babbage's analytical engine take a minute to perform

Related Topics

Topic: history of computers (66 items)