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First Draft of a Report

   on the EDVAC
             by
     John von Neumann

1.2 An automatic computing system is a (usually highly composite) device, which can carry out instructions to perform calculations of a considerable order of complexity—e.g. to solve a non-linear partial differential equation in 2 or 3 independent variables numerically.

   This report has been published in: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4,

pp.27-75, 1993.

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