Read Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman to get an idea of how they were doing the calculations to build the Bomb in the Manhattan Project!
One of my favorite books. I loved the part when he talks about the clerical workers having to punch all the cards and then waiting for the results to come back.
180 posted on 07/28/2013 12:46:49 PM PDT by verga
(A nation divided by Zero!)