The first computers. (Women will like this one)

[Crazybob]

An interesting article about women who were rounded up during WWII and asked to do distributed computing without computers. They were figuring out trajectories for mortars and such by hand.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/08/women.rosies.math/index.html?hpt=C2

[DrPop]

That is an awesome article. Very few in our country could to calculus with respect to time in three different vectors...sans a calculator! ;)

[c303a]

That is an awesome article. Very few in our country could to calculus with respect to time in three different vectors...sans a calculator! ;)

High school kids today can't do simple math without a calculator. Have a grandkid who is a freshman and she had to get a scientific calculator for her math classes. They rely on them for everything from simple math to the higher stuff. I'm glad that her parents make her do a lot of her homework without the calculator.

[denim]

When I was first government, my initial office was upstairs from the room that used to hold the ENIAC. :)

[Fire$torm]

When I was first government, my initial office was upstairs from the room that used to hold the ENIAC. :)

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