ARITH-MATIC is an extension of
Grace Hopper's
A-2 programming language
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, developed around 1955. ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of
Remington Rand
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UNIVAC
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.
Some ARITH-MATIC subroutines
See also
*
A-0 System
References
External links
Website at Boise via Internet Archive
Numerical programming languages
Remington Rand
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