![]() MELLIN, a man of unusual occupation, has an unusual title. ![]() Mellin of Gardner, Mass., is a master of one of these machines, some of which are as big as four basketball courts. They haven’t replaced GOVERNMENT ISSUE or BY THE NUMBERS, and probably won’t, but in a small, select circle they’re heard more frequently than the old expressions used by millions of veterans of World War II and Korea.įor these colorful expressions are part of the workday vocabulary of the military mathematicians who man the Army’s electronic computors, the “brains” that, fed the right figures by the men who know how, come up with the right answers in a matter of split seconds. WASHINGTON-BIZMAC, UNIVAC, GARBAGE IN-GARBAGE OUT-all new terms in the Army. Work With New Electronic ‘Brains’ Opens Field for Army Math Experts The earliest occurrences that I have found of the phrase garbage in, garbage out, and of its abbreviation GIGO, are as follows, in chronological order:ġ-: From The Hammond Times (Hammond, Indiana, USA) of Sunday 10 th November 1957: How will any of our youth become an independent thinker, a productive and righteous citizen of our wonderful Nation without the proper and truthful education? Remember feeding “garbage in/garbage out” or is it “good in/good out” being poured into your child’s mind. The following, for example, is from a letter to the Editor, by one Mary Lee Berger, “ a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother”, published in the Victoria Advocate (Victoria, Texas, USA) of Saturday 24 th and Sunday 25 th September 2022: This phrase and its abbreviation have come to be also applied to processes likened to computerised data processing. Used of computer data, the phrase garbage in, garbage out, and its abbreviation GIGO, mean: incorrect or poor-quality input will produce faulty output.
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