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Proceedings of the 1952 ACM national meeting (Toronto) table of contents
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pages: 61 - 67  
Year of Publication: 1952
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University of Toronto : University of Toronto
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

At the Wayne University meeting of this Association in the spring of 1951, George W. Patterson presented a paper on Reversing Digit Number Systems. Although these systems can be stated with respect to any base, we will be concerned only with the special case of base 2. The reversing representation for base 2 is also called the Gray code, symmetric binary code, and the reflected binary code. It any n, in going from n to n+1 in the reversing system, one and only one digit is changed. But this is not so for the normal (base 2) representation. Secondly, the changed digit differs in absolute value from the original by only one unit. This is automatically satisfied when the base is 2, but is an additional condition to be imposed when the base is greater than 2.