A week-end off: The first extensive number-theoretical computation on the ENIAC

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5028 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 158-167

  De Mol, Liesbeth ^a,d   Bullynck, Maarten ^b,c,e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IZWT   (Germany)

^c REHSEIS   (France)

^d RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^e Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Derrick H. Lehmer; Early programming; ENIAC; Fermat's little theorem; Number theory; Parallelism; Prime sieve

Indexed keywords

(E ,2E) THEORY; EXTENSIVE NUMBER; HEIDELBERG (CO); SALIENT POINTS; SPRINGER (CO);

EID: 45849119095     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69407-6_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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