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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 3
Lost Women of Science
Using Function Tables in a Computer Program
Eniac was built with parts called function tables. The function tables were basically a big panel of switches. They originally had just been intended to hold numerical constance and look up tables. But then they'rl lake, hey, wait. We have thousands of digits of memory that can be read at high electronic speeds here. This way you could give the computer a road map for a lot of what to do right at the start. And making changes to the programme just meant turning the switches.
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