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To: rlmorel
Read “Surely You’re 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!)
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To: verga

My favorite part was his ‘safe-cracking” phase...:)


191 posted on 07/28/2013 4:17:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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