This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )

  • anton
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    7 hours ago

    Considering fortran was designed for numerical computation, it was probably a east to check mathematical identity like n*(n+1)/2 = 0 + 1 + 2 + … + n