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Originally Posted by ratinox
Computers of the era typically wouldn't and didn't use lookup tables. They used binary-coded decimal storage where decimal numbers were needed. But that's an esoteric-enough factoid that I wouldn't expect someone unfamiliar with assembly programming to know it.
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What I seem to remember in one scene is that the books were used to look up the binary values for natural logarithms so no decimal/binary conversion needed in the computer (which sounded more like an old electronic calculator than a general purpose computer)
After all, even adders can multiply if they have log tables.