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his original 1937 thesis(o) is extremely approachable, as is the case with many papers where a new concept is developed therein i recommend reading it (o) htt

• justifier 10y ago
  fun quote: " This design requires that the primes less than 10,000 be known. If desired, the machine could be made to automatically connect in new counters as the primes were found, but there are many accurate tables of primes up to 10,000 so that this would not be necessary. As to the practicability of such a device, it might be said tnat J.P. Kulik spent 20 years in constructing a table of primes up to 100,000,000 and when finished it was found to contain so many errors that it was not worth publishing. The macnine described here could probably be made to handle 5 numbers per second so that the table would require only about 2 months to construct. " i am always amazed at the idea of tables of useful figures being a limited resource, think tycho brahe or log tables