Around 1900 B.C., a student in the Sumerian city of Nippur, in what’s now Iraq, copied a multiplication table onto a clay tablet. Some 4,000 years later, that schoolwork survives, as do the student’s ...
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When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.