Back in 1956, the Mach-2 B-58 Hustler had an analog navigation computer. It wasn't ...

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Back in 1956, the Mach-2 B-58 Hustler had an analog navigation computer. It wasn't accurate enough, so they built a digital replacement. Sines and cosines are easy in analog, but required a new digital algorithm. They invented the CORDIC algorithm and built the 134-pound CORDIC computer.

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