N

Napier, John, 710, 12
Napier’s logs, 2021
Napier’s rods, 910, 19
National Bureau of Standards, 153, 155

and UNIVAC, 15758

National Cash Register Company (NCR), 16973, 18284

antitrust violations and, 17072
Century Series computers, 250
integrated circuit computers and, 250
newspaper advertisement of, 169
salesmen at, 171

National Research Council, and UNIVAC, 15859
Navigation tables, 40
Nelson, Robert, 215
Newman, Max, 148
Nines complement method, 25
Norris, William C., 218
Northrop Aircraft Company, 15960, 190
North Star, 275
Nova minicomputer, 258
Noyce, Robert, 233, 240, 259

background of, 239
integrated circuits and, 24044

Number systems, 46. See also Binary math
Numerical progression, 4142
Nutt Roy, 215