The First Computer Program
General Literature
2023-03-27 v1
Abstract
In 1837, the first computer program in history was sketched by the renowned mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage. It was a program for the Analytical Engine. The program consists of a sequence of arithmetical operations and the necessary variable addresses (memory locations) of the arguments and the result, displayed in tabular fashion, like a program trace. The program computes the solutions for a system of two linear equations in two unknowns.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2303.13740,
title = {The First Computer Program},
author = {Raúl Rojas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13740},
year = {2023}
}
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8 pages, 4 tables