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I made a little activity from the demonstration given in the paper, https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/59a05b5f50338d34a21e61c0 https://teacher.
by anonymid 9y ago
I made a little activity from the demonstration given in the paper,
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/59a05b5f50338d34a21e61c0 https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/59a05b5f50...
I agree that the actual paper is way better than most press I've read about it. (others have linked to it, but http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017300691 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017... )
I found the surprise appearance by Knuth super interesting!
- sanxiyn 9y agoKnuth is worth quoting in full, so here is the very first paragraph of Ancient Babylonian Algorithms (1972) by Donald E. Knuth: One of the ways to help make computer science respectable is to show that it is deeply rooted in history, not just a short-lived phenomenon. Therefore it is natural to turn to the earliest surviving documents which deal with computation, and to study how people approached the subject nearly 4000 years ago. Archeological expeditions in the Middle East have unearthed a large number of clay tablets which contain mathematical calculations, and we shall see that these tablets give many interesting clues about the life of early "computer scientists".
- alanbernstein 9y agoThanks for that, it was a good quick introduction to what's going on on the tablet.