EDSAC

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Applications of EDSAC

• In 1951, Miller and Wheeler used the machine to discover a 79-digit prime—the largest known at the time.
• In 1952 A.S. Douglas developed OXO, a graphical version of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) for the EDSAC. This may well have been the world's first computer/video game.
• In the 1960s the EDSAC computer was used to gather numerical evidence about solutions to elliptic curves, which led to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.