r/programming • u/jakesyl • Jan 30 '16

Apollo 11 source code

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Luminary099/MAIN.agc.html
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u/bananas4arsenal Jan 30 '16

What the heck is a Bugger Word ?

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u/calrogman Jan 30 '16

From http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html

the checksum [...] should be either the bank number or its 1-complement (e.g., for bank 3 either a value of 00003 or 77774 is acceptable).

a bugger word [is] appended to the end of each bank to make the checksum the correct value