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Automation and Management Accounting in British Manufacturing and Retail Financial Services, 1945-1968
This article looks at the effects of office mechanisation in greater detail by describing data processing innovations in major building societies during the dawn of the computer era. Reference to similar developments in clearing banks, industrial and computer organisations provides evidence as to the common experience in the computerisation of firms in the post-war years. As a result, research in this article offers a comparison between widespread technological change and changes unique to service sector organisations. Moreover, research in this article ascertains the extent to which the adoption of computer-related innovations in financial services sought to satisfy financial, rather than management accounting, purposes.banks, building societies, manufacturing, computers
The difficulty of prime factorization is a consequence of the positional numeral system
The importance of the prime factorization problem is very well known
(e.g., many security protocols are based on the impossibility of a fast factorization
of integers on traditional computers). It is necessary from a number k
to establish two primes a and b giving k = a · b. Usually, k is written in a positional
numeral system. However, there exists a variety of numeral systems
that can be used to represent numbers. Is it true that the prime factorization is
difficult in any numeral system? In this paper, a numeral system with partial
carrying is described. It is shown that this system contains numerals allowing
one to reduce the problem of prime factorization to solving [K/2] − 1
systems of equations, where K is the number of digits in k (the concept of
digit in this system is more complex than the traditional one) and [u] is the
integer part of u. Thus, it is shown that the difficulty of prime factorization is
not in the problem itself but in the fact that the positional numeral system is
used traditionally to represent numbers participating in the prime factorization.
Obviously, this does not mean that P=NP since it is not known whether
it is possible to re-write a number given in the traditional positional numeral
system to the new one in a polynomial time
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