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Why was 2^127 − 1 an interesting problem for "Baby"?
The BBC News article The 'Baby' that ushered in modern computer age along with the short embedded video begins with:
A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran ...
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How did software engineers test their code in 19xx? [closed]
There is a plethora of tools available for engineers to test their code these days. However, frameworks like Mocha.js came around only in 2011 with the ascent of NPM. So I wonder what were the ...
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