• ③ Enchanting Numbers▪On computers’ invention as mechanical calculators

  • May 22 2017
  • Duração: 28 minutos
  • Podcast

③ Enchanting Numbers▪On computers’ invention as mechanical calculators

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  • Computing began long before the twentieth century. Mechanical calculators ran on cogs, wheels, and steam engines. How would you like a job as a computer? Not a programmer, not even a mathematician. A computer. Someone who makes calculations. By hand. All day, every day. I guess that doesn’t sound appealing. Until well into the previous …

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