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Coloured Petri Nets predate both and are relevant to crypto, I don't know enough to say if the idea was math/compsci jargon prior to that as well. https://en.w
by tyrfing 5y ago
Coloured Petri Nets predate both and are relevant to crypto, I don't know enough to say if the idea was math/compsci jargon prior to that as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_Petri_net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_Petri_net
- jazzyjackson 5y agoThanks! Didn’t know about Petri nets, makes me wonder if this all didn’t start with Red/Black binary trees, so named because that’s the two colors of ink they had on hand, cited 1978: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/116614/where-does-the-term-red-black-tree-come-from https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1166...