A technique for counting ones in a binary computer

By Peter Wegner

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 3 No. 5, Page 322
10.1145/367236.367286

Standard methods of counting binary ones on a computer with a 704 type instruction code require an inner loop which is carried out once for each bit in the machine word. Program 1 (written in SAP language for purposes of illustration) is an example of such a standard program.

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