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You also write that Turing's work "paved the way for modern general computers." According to the text, however, this practical part really started with Konrad Z
by P-NP 5y ago
You also write that Turing's work "paved the way for modern general computers." According to the text, however, this practical part really started with Konrad Zuse's patent application of 1936:
"The formal models of Gödel (1931-34), Church (1935), Turing (1936), and Post (1936) were theoretical pen & paper constructs that cannot directly serve as a foundation for practical computers. Remarkably, Konrad Zuse's patent application[ZU36-38][Z36][RO98] for the first practical general-purpose program-controlled computer also dates back to 1936. It describes general digital circuits (and predates Claude Shannon's 1937 thesis on digital circuit design[SHA37]). Then, in 1941, Zuse completed Z3, the world's first practical, working, programmable computer (based on the 1936 application). Ignoring the inevitable storage limitations of any physical computer, the physical hardware of Z3 was indeed universal in the "modern" sense of Gödel, Church, Turing, and Post—simple arithmetic tricks can compensate for Z3's lack of an explicit conditional jump instruction.[RO98]"
- truth_ 5y ago> According to the text, however, this practical part really started with Konrad Zuse's patent application of 1936 "According to the text" I don't agree with the text, that is the point.
- P-NP 5y agoSo you don't agree with the text but can you point out a concrete error instead of referring to "Many of the child parents to my main address to that"? I could not really find anything convincing in those child parents.