A week-end off: the first extensive number-theoretical computation on the ENIAC
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- Liesbeth De Mol (UGent) and Maarten Bullynck
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- Abstract
- The first extensive number-theoretical computation run on the ENIAC, is reconstructed. The problem, computing the exponent of 2 modulo a prime, was set up on the ENIAC during a week-end in July 1946 by the number-theorist D.H. Lehmer, with help from his wife Emma and John Mauchly. Important aspects of the ENIAC's design are presented-and the reconstruction of the implementation of the problem on the ENIAC is discussed in its salient points.
- Keywords
- ENIAC, Derrick H. Lehmer, number theory, Fermat's little theorem, early programming, parallelism, prime sieve, ELECTRONIC-COMPUTER, LIFE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-430672
- MLA
- De Mol, Liesbeth, and Maarten Bullynck. “A Week-End off: The First Extensive Number-Theoretical Computation on the ENIAC.” LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, edited by Arnold Beckmann et al., vol. 5028, Springer Verlag, 2008, pp. 158–67.
- APA
- De Mol, L., & Bullynck, M. (2008). A week-end off: the first extensive number-theoretical computation on the ENIAC. In A. Beckmann, C. Dimitracopoulos, & B. Loewe (Eds.), LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (Vol. 5028, pp. 158–167). Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.
- Chicago author-date
- De Mol, Liesbeth, and Maarten Bullynck. 2008. “A Week-End off: The First Extensive Number-Theoretical Computation on the ENIAC.” In LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, edited by Arnold Beckmann, Costas Dimitracopoulos, and Benedikt Loewe, 5028:158–67. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- De Mol, Liesbeth, and Maarten Bullynck. 2008. “A Week-End off: The First Extensive Number-Theoretical Computation on the ENIAC.” In LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, ed by. Arnold Beckmann, Costas Dimitracopoulos, and Benedikt Loewe, 5028:158–167. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.
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- 1.De Mol L, Bullynck M. A week-end off: the first extensive number-theoretical computation on the ENIAC. In: Beckmann A, Dimitracopoulos C, Loewe B, editors. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag; 2008. p. 158–67.
- IEEE
- [1]L. De Mol and M. Bullynck, “A week-end off: the first extensive number-theoretical computation on the ENIAC,” in LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Athens, Greece, 2008, vol. 5028, pp. 158–167.
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