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- In a similar vein I recommend Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston, an excellent history of calculators that also spends a lot of time on how we humans calculated before we had them
- I just finished reading Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator, which describes the Programma and many of its contemporaries. Highly recommended reading if you're interested in the history of calculating machines and how they intersect with computers.
- I just recently came across CORDIC in a fun read I just finished, 'Empire of the Sum', by Keith Houston. It's a history of calculators, and there's a chapter on the HP-35 which used CORDIC. The author goes into some details how it was used by that constrained device.
There are a lot of references given in the book including more details on CORDIC.
- People with interest in calculators might be interested to read Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston, which provides some historical notes on calculating before the electronic and digital revolution.
-- A proud owner of a Faber Castell slide rule, inherited from my father, and an Odhner mechanical calculator, from my grandfather.
- I just finished reading Empire of the Sum which is a book telling the history of calculators, and has an entire chapter on Olivetti and the Programma 101. Highly recommend if you're interested in calculators.
- I just finished Keith Houston's previous book _Empire of the Sum_, a history of calculators, I'll be reading this next.
