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... simple task , perhaps in arithmetic ; it is much more difficult to discover the best way to give more complex instructions ; and no one can yet foretell all the consequences of an untried program of instructions . This book is not ...
... simple task , perhaps in arithmetic ; it is much more difficult to discover the best way to give more complex instructions ; and no one can yet foretell all the consequences of an untried program of instructions . This book is not ...
Page 150
... simple instructions . They are a warning that there are a lot of things in the world to which one cannot apply the Information Theory argument which supposes that if we start with a certain quantity of information , which measures the ...
... simple instructions . They are a warning that there are a lot of things in the world to which one cannot apply the Information Theory argument which supposes that if we start with a certain quantity of information , which measures the ...
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... simple introduction to giving instructions to computers , try Wilson Y. Gateley and Gary C. Bitter , Basic for Beginners , McGraw - Hill , 1970 , but there are many other simple tests for other types of computer . The game of ' life ...
... simple introduction to giving instructions to computers , try Wilson Y. Gateley and Gary C. Bitter , Basic for Beginners , McGraw - Hill , 1970 , but there are many other simple tests for other types of computer . The game of ' life ...
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