Setting-up early computer programs: D. H. Lehmer's ENIAC computation

DOI10.1007/S00153-009-0169-8MaRDI QIDQ2267753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maarten Bullynck, Liesbeth De Mol

Publication date 2 March 2010

Published in Archive for Mathematical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-934535

zbMATH Keywords

computer program

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to number theory (11-04) Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Applications of sieve methods (11N36) Number-theoretic algorithms; complexity (11Y16) History of computer science (68-03)

Review text

The authors present a complete reconstruction of Lehmer's ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Computer) set-up for computing the exponents of \(p\) modulo \(2\). This program served as an early test program for the ENIAC (1946).

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