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== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Shannon_1948_1">{{cite journal |author-last=Shannon |author-first=Claude Elwood |author-link=Claude Elwood Shannon |title=A Mathematical Theory of Communication |journal=[[Bell System Technical Journal]] |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=379β423 |date=July 1948 |doi=10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x |hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4314-2 |url=http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980715013250/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=1998-07-15 |quote=The choice of a logarithmic base corresponds to the choice of a unit for measuring information. If the base 2 is used the resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly ''[[bit]]s'', a word suggested by J. W. Tukey.|hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Shannon_1948_2">{{cite journal |author-last=Shannon |author-first=Claude Elwood |author-link=Claude Elwood Shannon |title=A Mathematical Theory of Communication |journal=[[Bell System Technical Journal]] |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=623β666 |date=October 1948 |doi=10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb00917.x |hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4314-2|hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Shannon_1949">{{cite book |author-last1=Shannon |author-first1=Claude Elwood |author-link1=Claude Elwood Shannon |author-first2=Warren |author-last2=Weaver |author-link2=Warren Weaver |title=A Mathematical Theory of Communication |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |date=1949 |isbn=0-252-72548-4 |url=http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980715013250/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=1998-07-15}}</ref> <ref name="Leonhardt_2000">{{cite news |title=John Tukey, 85, Statistician; Coined the Word 'Software' |author-last=Leonhardt |author-first=David |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=2000-07-28 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/28/us/john-tukey-85-statistician-coined-the-word-software.html |access-date=2012-09-24}}</ref> <!--<ref name="Carhart_1953">{{cite book |author-last=Carhart |author-first=Richard |title=A survey of the current status of the electronic reliability problem |date=1953 |publisher=[[Rand Corporation]] |location=Santa Monica, CA |page=69 |url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2013/RM1131.pdf#79 |quote=[β¦] It will be recalled from Sec. 1.6 that the term ''personnel'' was defined to include people who come into direct contact with the hardware, from production to field use, i.e., people who assemble, inspect, pack, ship, handle, install, operate, and maintain electronic equipment. In any of these phases personnel failures may result in unoperational gear. As with the hardware factors, there is almost no quantitative data concerning these [[software]] or human factors in reliability: How many faults are caused by personnel, why they occur, and what can be done to remove the errors. [β¦]}}</ref> <ref name="Tukey_1958">{{cite journal |author-first=John Wilder |author-last=Tukey |author-link=John Tukey |title=The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics |journal=[[American Mathematical Monthly]] |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis, Ltd.]] / [[Mathematical Association of America]] |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=1β9, 2 |date=January 1958 |id={{CODEN|AMMYAE}} |issn=0002-9890 |doi=10.2307/2310294 |quote=[β¦] Today the "[[software]]" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes, and the like. [β¦]|jstor=2310294 }}</ref> <ref name="Niquette_2006">{{citation |author-last=Niquette |author-first=R. Paul |date=2006 |title=Softword: Provenance for the Word 'Software |isbn=1-58922-233-4 |url=http://www.niquette.com/books/softword/tocsoft.html |access-date=2019-08-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808124650/http://www.niquette.com/books/softword/tocsoft.html |archive-date=2019-08-08}}</ref> <ref name="Shapiro_2000">{{cite journal |author-last=Shapiro |author-first=Fred |date=2000 |title=Origin of the Term Software: Evidence from the JSTOR Electronic Journal Archive |journal=[[IEEE Annals of the History of Computing]] |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=69β71 |doi=10.1109/mahc.2000.887997 |url=http://computer.org/annals/an2000/pdf/a2069.pdf |access-date=2013-06-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030605004419/http://computer.org/annals/an2000/pdf/a2069.pdf |archive-date=2003-06-05}}</ref> <ref name="Beebe_2017">{{cite book |author-first=Nelson H. F. |author-last=Beebe |title=The Mathematical-Function Computation Handbook - Programming Using the MathCW Portable Software Library |chapter=Chapter I - Integer arithmetic |date=2017-08-22 |location=Salt Lake City, UT, USA |publisher=[[Springer International Publishing AG]] |edition=1 |lccn=2017947446 |isbn=978-3-319-64109-6 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-64110-2 |pages=969, 1035|s2cid=30244721 }}</ref>--> }}
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