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Quote: Manchester "baby" computer programmed for long division and factoring

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history of programming
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history of computers
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Examples of problem that have been carried out … 2. [Highest common factor] … 3. Factorizing an integer. For (3) the method … Thus the highest proper factor of 2^18 was … done not by long division, but by the … 3.5 million operations. The correct answer was obtained …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Manchester "baby" computer correctly ran 3.5 million operations in 52 minutes

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