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As a result of these military needs, the Allies and the Axis powers both in-
creased their spending on analog and digital computers. Digital computers were
used by the Allies to break key military codes for both Germany and Japan,
which probably shortened the war and raised the odds of Allied success. Analog
computers were built by the thousands for naval fire control, submarine torpedo
launching, antiaircraft fire control, and also bombsights linked to autopilots.
At the beginning of the decade, the word “computer” was a job description ap-
plied to a human mathematician. By the end of the decade, the word “computer”
was starting to be used as it is today, as the name for a high-speed electronic calcu-
lating device. The rapid advances of this decade due to military needs would lead
to computers entering the business world.
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