The SAC-1 Polynomial Real Zero System
date: label: Date made
content: August 1970
name: label: Associated Name
content: Riley, Robert F.
label: maker
content: University of Wisconsin. Computer Sciences Department
notes: label: Description
content: Attempts to use computers to manipulate symbols as well as numbers date from the mid-1950s, with programs first published in the mid-1960s. George E. Collins (1928-2017), a computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, introduced the program PM (Polynomial Manipulation) in 1966 and a system of Fortran programs known as SAC-1 (Symbolic and Algebraic Calculation) beginning in 1967. The topologist Robert F. Riley (1935-2000) of Binghamton University in New York used this documentation for SAC-1 in his studies of the polynomials associated with knots and links.
label: Description
content: More specifically, this manual by Collins and L.E. Heindel describes the SAC-1 polynomial real zero system. It is the Computer Sciences Department 's Technical Report No. 18, dated August 1970.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Madison
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert F. Riley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.3057.07
label: nonaccession number
content: 1999.3057
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content: 1999.3057.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 21.7 cm x .6 cm; 11 1/32 in x 8 17/32 in x 1/4 in