Napier, John, 7–10, 12
Napier’s logs, 20–21
Napier’s rods, 9–10, 19
National Bureau of Standards, 153, 155
National Cash Register Company (NCR), 169–73, 182–84
antitrust violations and, 170–72
Century Series computers, 250
integrated circuit computers and, 250
newspaper advertisement of, 169
salesmen at, 171
National Research Council, and UNIVAC, 158–59
Navigation tables, 40
Nelson, Robert, 215
Newman, Max, 148
Nines complement method, 25
Norris, William C., 218
Northrop Aircraft Company, 159–60, 190
North Star, 275
Nova minicomputer, 258
Noyce, Robert, 233, 240, 259
background of, 239
integrated circuits and, 240–44
Number systems, 4–6. See also Binary math
Numerical progression, 41–42
Nutt Roy, 215