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Calculator Grinds Out Mighty Tome Unaided

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No human being wrote a single word of the 764-page book just published by the University Press. It was all done by a machine.

The book, "Tables of the Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Sixteen through Twenty-Seven," looks much like a mammoth logarithm table and was compiled by the College's Computation Laboratory. All the mathematicians had to do was correctly adjust their "Mark I" calculator and turn it on.

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