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Burt add numbers: a tale of software

Published: 01 November 2006 Publication History

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One day, an agent from the government asked Burt, a software engineer of great renown, who lives near the realm of possibility, to write a program to add up the numbers from 1 to 10. Apparently, the government adds numbers quite often, and when the government wants to automate their processes they consult with the best and the brightest. On the grounds that there is nothing quite so banal as the answer to a question, Burt turned down the commission, which would have rewarded him with one hour of time on the government's biggest iron: a super duper computer. Besides, other commissions kept him busy.

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 31, Issue 6
November 2006
182 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1218776
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 November 2006
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 31, Issue 6

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