The Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC). In contrast to the decimal number representation of the ENIAC, which required ten flip-flops per digit, the EDVAC used binary number representation, which meant that ten flip-flops could store ten binary digits. As 210 = 1024,which is more than 103, this meant that ten flip-flops of the EDVAC could store three decimal digits.
The mathematician John von Neumann, consultant to the EDVAC project, and the nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer in front of the EDVAC.
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