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To: combjelly who wrote (256992)	10/25/2005 9:46:54 AM
From: Taro	of 1575981

* used as a multiply sign dates back to IBM's Fortran if my memory serves me well. I first encountered it when writing and running programs on our college IBM 7090, later updated to one of Europe's most advanced computers of that time, the IBM 7094. We also used Algol for scientific programs on DASK and BESK. BESK was the very computer which put the Swedes way up front in weather simulation, when the advanced algorithms developed by a Swedish scientist way ahead of computing power available to run the calculations necessary could finally come to life on a sequential machine. A lead they have maintained until very recently. That is why the US have had a close cooperation with Sweden in this area for more than 50 years. Taro

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