Published October 1, 1974 | Version public
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John von Neumann and the National Accounting Machine

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A visit to D. H. Sadler, Superintendent, H.M. Nautical Almanac Office in 1943 by von Neumann and the author led to one of von Neumann's early contacts with programming.

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©1974 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Received by the editors September 17, 1973. This account is based on notes taken at the time and letters describing them written to Mrs. Todd (Olga Taussky) and on related correspondence with D.H. Sadler. I am indebted to Mr. Sadler for a critical reading of a draft of this paper. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

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