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↑"Easily at the top of the First Class", d'après MacTutor biography.
↑James H. Wilkinson, « Error Analysis of Direct Methods of Matrix Inversion », Journal of the ACM, 8e série, no 3, , p. 281 (DOI10.1145/321075.321076)
↑(en) James H. Wilkinson, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Orlando/San Diego/New York... etc., Academic Press, , 693 p. (ISBN0-12-491650-3), « Turing's Work at the National Physical Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE »