The arithmetic unit of the SWAC received information from the memory in the form of numbers to be operated upon and instructions as to the nature of the operation. Having acted upon such instructions and completed the operation, the arithmetic unit returned the answer to the memory.. The arithmetic unit included two pulse drivers.
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