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Comments on a technique for counting ones

By P. M. Sherman
Communications of the ACM, October 1960, Vol. 3 No. 10, Page 538
10.1145/367415.367425
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Peter Wegner [1] describes a short 704 SAP program that is faster than the standard technique. The expected number of loops—of five instructions each—for a word half of whose bits are ones, is 18 in this program.

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