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The Computer Journal 1961 3(4):211-219; doi:10.1093/comjnl/3.4.211
© 1961 by British Computer Society
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An Introduction to Analogue Computer Methods

J. G. Thomason

I.C.I. Ltd, Reading, UK

The modern electronic analogue computer is a set of many individual units of electronic equipment grouped in such a way that provision is made for rapid interconnection of these units to form a specified electrical configuration. By using routine programming techniques it may be arranged that the differential equations obeyed by the voltages in the analogue configuration are identical to those formulated as a mathematical description of a full-scale process. Tests on the analogue may then replace experiment on the process, enabling development to proceed at a greatly accelerated rate. Few advances in the actual techniques of setting up analogues are expected, but considerable fields of application of the technique remain to be explored.


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