Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrate the machine's speed, scientists at the Computation Laboratory say that Mark III can multiply two 16 digit numbers together over 1000 times faster than a man can even write down the 32 figures to be multiplied...
Another new feature of Mark III, and one of the outstanding advances in the development of automatic-controlled computing machines, is a specially designed "coding box." The purpose of this device is to speed up the process of translating mathematical symbols and operations into a "language" the machine...
...Beats Mark...
...means of the "coding box," an operator can feed a problem into Mark III in a fraction of the time required by Mark II and any other calculating machines in use at the present time. Very complex problems that used to take days and weeks to "code" for the machine can now be prepared almost as quickly as an operator can punch the keys...
...Mark III solves problems, the answers are recorded on another magnetic tape similar to the one on which the information was put into the machine. A magnetic tape is used because Mark III turns out answers faster than a typewriter can print them. To overcome this difficulty, the tape is then fed to a tape reader which relays the answers to a battery of five typewriters...