by simon

What does the accronym ENIAC stand for?

Boogie Boogie Boogie ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. And it was originally used to determine bomb trajectories. When done by hand this process took a human 20 hours, and when done by ENIAC it took only 30 seconds. That is an average of 2400 computations every 20 hours or 120 computations an hour.

 

 
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