The idea that there is such a thing as analogue computation is a classic oxymoron. The logic of the digital is computation and vice versa. (Now let's see how quickly this thread devolves.)
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This interpretation strikes me as implausible historically. Thomson's integrating machine and Babbage's analytical engine seem to have developed as seperate solutions to the same practical problem long before any actual principles of computation were clearly articulated.
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It's like saying that Ptolemaic system was before the Copernican system and it was semi-effective. That's triviality at best. The Ptolemaic system was already working on equations of motion via Ox calculators and Oresme's formula. They just didn't know the undergirding mechanisms
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make him! I just don't get it:|
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