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- chapter_07 accessDate "2016-01-02".
- chapter_07 at "7: Scientific Calculators, circa 1966".
- chapter_07 date "2010-11-19".
- chapter_07 first "David S.".
- chapter_07 id "CHM X5992.2011".
- chapter_07 isCitedBy CORDIC.
- chapter_07 last "Cochran".
- chapter_07 publisher "Computer History Museum / HP Memories".
- chapter_07 quote "(I even flew down to Southern California to talk with Jack Volder who had implemented the transcendental functions in the Athena machine and talked to him for about an hour. He referred me to the original papers by Meggitt where he'd gotten the pseudo division, pseudo multiplication generalized functions. […] I did quite a bit of literary research leading to some very interesting discoveries. […] I found a treatise from 1624 by Henry Briggs discussing the calculation of common logarithms, interestingly used the same pseudo-division/pseudo-multiplication method that MacMillan and Volder used in Athena. […] We had purchased a LOCI-2 from Wang Labs and recognized that Wang Labs LOCI II used the same algorithm to do square root as well as log and exponential. After the introduction of the 9100 our legal department got a letter from Wang saying that we had infringed on their patent. And I just sent a note back with the Briggs reference in Latin and it said, "It looks like prior art to me." We never heard another word.)".
- chapter_07 title "A Quarter Century at HP".
- chapter_07 type "interview typescript".
- chapter_07 url chapter_07.