Data processing system

Claim 1

IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, A MEMORY SECTION INCLUDING MEMORY MEANS FOR STORING NUMBERS TO BE PROCESSED AS A QUANTITY OF NUMBER-WORDS OF A PREDETERMINED QUANTITY OF CHARACTERS, THE INDIVIDUAL NUMBER-WORDS CONTAINING THE VALUE PART OF THE NUMBER-WORD SPLIT INTO TWO VALUE PORTIONS WITH A BREAK-IN CHARACTER ASSOCIATED WITH THE TWO VALUE PORTIONS FOR CODING EACH NUMBER''S TRUE VALUE SEQUENCE, A BUFFER MEMORY SECTION INCLUDING WRITEOUT MEANS FOR SUCCESSIVELY WRITING-OUT CODED NUMBERS FROM SAID MEMORY MEANS FOR THEIR PROCESSING, A SYSTEM REGISTER SECTION HAVING A PLURALITY OF STAGES FOR RECEIVING AT LEAST TWICE THE QUANTITY OF CHARACTERS CONTAINED IN THE NUMBER-WORDS, CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE LOCATION AND FORM OF THE BREAK-IN CHARACTER OF EACH NUMBER-WORD AS WRITTEN INTO SAID BUFFER MEMORY SECTION, AND TRANSPOSING CIRCUIT MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID CONTROL MEANS AND TO SAID BUFFER MEMORY SECTION AND OPERATIVE TO TRANSPOSE THE VALUE PORTIONS OF SAID NUMBER-WORDS INTO THEIR ORIGINAL VALUE SEQUENCE AND WRITING-IN SUCH ORIGINAL VALUE SEQUENCE INTO SAID REGISTER SECTION AND THEREBY TO INTEGRATE THE PROPER VALUE FOR THE NUMBER PROCESSED IN THE SYSTEM NUMERICAL OUTPUT; SAID MEMORY MEANS BEING COMPRISED OF A PLURALITY OF MEMORY WORD LOCATIONS FOR STORING A PLURALITY OF NUMBER WORDS; EACH MEMORY WORD LOCATION BEING COMPRISED OF A PLURALITY OF MEMORY FINGER POSITIONS FOR RECEIVING AN ASSOCIATED FIGURE OF THE MEMORY WORD STORED IN THE MEMORY LOCATION; EACH MEMORY FIGURE POSITION BEING ASSIGNED A PLURALITY OF DISCRETE VALUES; SAID BREAK-IN CHARACTER BEING USED TO ASSIGN ONE OF THE DISCRETE VALUES TO THE FINGERS STORED IN EACH MEMORY FIGURE POSITION.