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title: "FLATS, A MACHINE FOR NUMERICAL, SYMBOLIC AND ASSOCIATIVE COMPUTING"
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url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/225"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0225.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
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# FLATS, A MACHINE FOR NUMERICAL, SYMBOLIC AND ASSOCIATIVE COMPUTING



*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

Functional aspects of a machine called FLATS, presently (June 1979) in the design stage, are described. FLATS aims to efficiently run both numerical and algebraic programs. Overflow free and variable precision arithmetic, table look-up computation, and associative computation based on single-hit content addressed tables are introduced for advanced numerical, algebraic and symbolic computing. Hashing hardware, tag mechanism and hardware list processing are used to realize these features.