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Quote: EDSAC include interpretive routines for complex numbers and floating point arithmetic; they coined the term
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Processes, Interpretive subroutines. There are in the library … parameters in the store. The codes by which … to simplify the coding of such operations as … [An interpretive] routine is defined as one which executes … of the parameter in the series. [p. xxii, "They soon discovered that "interpretive" was not in the dictionaries they consulted--it should have been "interpretative"--but by the time they learned this, the usage "interpretive" had passed the point of no return.) Google-1 Google-2
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