Did we know this?

[Dave Monroe]

Phillips, R.S. and P.R. Weiss,
“Theoretical Calculations on Best Smoothing of Position Data for
Gunnery Predictions,"
MIT Radiation Lab., Rept. 532, February, 1944

https://books.google.com/books/about/Theoretical_Calculation_on_Best_Smoothin.html?id=p3kVHQAACAAJ

http://www.worldcat.org/title/theoretical-calculation-on-best-smoothing-of-position-data-for-gunnery-prediction/oclc/13686687

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:06 AM, David Casseres
<david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> Sent from my iPad-
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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