Did we know this?

[David Casseres]

Oh yes.  Anyone interested in mechanizing computation always looked for the
tasks that sent people scrambling to large, unwieldy printed tables.
Gunnery was a low-hanging candidate, and I think that was the case all the
way back to Babbage and Lovelace; indeed all the way back to Napier.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> " in computing, you start by calculating the flight trajectory of
> artillery shells, the task assigned the ENIAC IN 1946. " ---from DATAISM,
> Steve Lohr, 2015
>
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