Linear algebraic computation by multi-winding transformers

✍ Scribed by Frederick L. Ryder

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1955
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 698 KB
• Volume: 259
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(55)90685-2

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes the behavior of a transformer having a plurality of windings mounted on a single core, and discusses applications in the automatic computation of linear algebraic expressions such as simultaneous equations and the like. The computing circuits are superior to prior ones in that they combine the following properties: they contain no amplifiers, or components of limited life such as vacuum tubes ; they require no iteration, either manual or automatic; and they bear a close pictorial resemblance with the equations to be solved, thus simplifying the operating procedure. Actual experimental results are given for a set of simultaneous inequalities such as occur in linear programming theory; this includes the solution of several sets of simultaneous equations.