The PACE Scaling Routine for Mercury
W. G. Proctor · The Computer Journal · 1962
A description is given of a digital computer routine that will scale and process a system of first-order differential equations into a form suitable for programming an analogue computer. The routine also produces a check voltage for each scaled differential equation; this ensures that the equation has been set up correctly on the analogue. The use of the routine eliminates much of the time-consuming debugging of the analogue set-up, since the errors due to hand computation are eliminated. A full description of the routine is given from the analogue computer programmer's viewpoint.