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The Instruction Code of the Computer

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Considering the vast variety and complexity of the problems which are solved by the computer, it is surprising how few basic operations are required to accomplish these great computational feats. Actually everything which the machine does depends upon the elementary functions of moving, replacing, and combining information bits.

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Hintze, G. (1966). The Instruction Code of the Computer. In: Fundamentals of Digital Machine Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-92912-0_5

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