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Actually another quibble. A few minutes on wikipedia suggests that the ancient Greeks invented "computing:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism h
by ojbyrne 14y ago
Actually another quibble. A few minutes on wikipedia suggests that the ancient Greeks invented "computing:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Not to invalid your point, just that its quibbles all the way down.
- 3am 14y agoBut that has the feel of saying that Newton didn't invent calculus because of the work Archimedes did with infinitesimals. And in Turing's case it's without a Leibnitz-esque independent co-discoverer figure muddying the water. Turing is the Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, and Michael Jordan of computer science.