Software ranged from simple mortgage interest calculations, word processing, games and utilities to advanced payroll, accounting and industry specific applications.
Strict floating-point calculations require that even if a platform offers higher precision during calculations, intermediate results must be converted to single/double.
Centralized fire control followed in order to manage the information flow and calculations, but calculating the firing proved to be very complex and error prone.
He cautioned that after performing the calculations, it would be necessary for the analyst to think back from the simplification to more realistic assumptions.
