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This is an unhelpfully reductive definition of computer. The name computer used to mean people who compute things, but it’s also entirely reasonable to call a d
by jacobolus 4y ago
This is an unhelpfully reductive definition of computer. The name computer used to mean people who compute things, but it’s also entirely reasonable to call a device which performs computations a “computer”, including tools like an astrolabe, slide rule, or nomogram.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer