[vcf-midatlantic] Important IBM 701 Anniversary

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:20 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> On this day in history, April 1 1952 The IBM 701 computer successfully
>

Also a not well known fact is that this project's code name was "Deep
Thought".


> calculated with highest precision the universe "atomic core number"
> is 41.99349992(etc).  rounded up to 42.  This is the source of the
> tongue-in-cheek Hitchhiker's Guide book reference.
>


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