[HN Gopher] Von Neumann's First Computer Program Annotated/Expla...
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       Von Neumann's First Computer Program Annotated/Explained
        
       Author : ctoth
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2023-01-09 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | Nice to see some evidence for the hypothesis that (unlike Hoare
       | with QuickSort) von Neumann wasn't trying to develop merge sort
       | as a new sorting algorithm, but was merely trying to see if he
       | could, in software, do the part of the job that had up until then
       | been done, in hardware, on a separate unit record machine.
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       | > _He never actually gets around to coding the entire sorting
       | routine in this document; only the merging process is described._
       | 
       | > _He formulated the merging method as follows (based on a
       | procedure then used with the IBM collator):_
        
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