Herman Hollerith realized that he could encode information on
punch cards when he observed that
train conductors encode the appearance of the ticket holders on the train tickets using the position of punched holes on the tickets
[2]. Hollerith then encoded the 1890 American census data on punch cards.
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History of programming languages - Wikipediaine, the analytical engine. With the article she appended a set of notes which specified in complete detail a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the engine, recognized by some historians as the world's first computer program. [1]
<span>Herman Hollerith realized that he could encode information on punch cards when he observed that train conductors encode the appearance of the ticket holders on the train tickets using the position of punched holes on the tickets [2] . Hollerith then encoded the 1890 American census data on punch cards.
The first computer codes were specialized for their applications. In the first decades of the 20th century, numerical calculations were based on decimal numbers. Eventually it was rea Summary
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