Leslie John Comrie FRS (15 August 1893 – 11 December 1950) was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation. Leslie John Comrie was born in Pukekohe...
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City council member Leslie Comrie (1893–1950), New Zealand astronomer Mike Comrie (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player Neil Comrie (born 1947), Australian...
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and Tab" For early use of tabulators for scientific computations see Leslie Comrie Wallace John Eckert The "sorting box" was controlled by the tabulator...
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Accounting Machines. 1935: BTM Rolling Total Tabulator introduced. 1937: Leslie Comrie establishes the Scientific Computing Service Limited - the first for-profit...
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interpolation have thrived in the past 500 years: by the twentieth century Leslie Comrie and W.J. Eckert systematized the use of interpolation in tables of numbers...
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done by an "electronic supercalculator" (of the day!) in one second. Leslie Comrie IBM Electromatic Table Printing Machine List of IBM products History...
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– Arthur Milne (born 1896), English space physicist. December 11 – Leslie Comrie (born 1893), New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer. Oort, Jan...
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different computing devices, including a differential analyser. One day Leslie Comrie visited Wilkes and lent him a copy of John von Neumann's prepress description...
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ubiquitous in industry and government for accounting and administration. Leslie Comrie's articles on punched-card methods and W. J. Eckert's publication of...
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This machine was composed of four modified Triumphator calculators. Leslie Comrie in 1928 described how to use the Brunsviga-Dupla calculating machine...
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