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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: In-Memory Computing
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:50:46 -0000 (UTC)
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MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com> schrieb:

> In a Sph. project, we were given a ferrite core (~1 pound) and were told
> to use it as a counter, adding up when a new car entered a parking lot,
> and subtracting down when a car left. So, doing arithmetic in ferrite
> cores has been around for a very long time, indeed. {{OH, BTW, the
> purpose of the count was to prevent overflowing of the parking lot}}

Sounds like an interesting project, I assume you could add some
extra logic :-)

Were there enough cores so you could use a one-hot representation,
or did you have to do something more elaborate?