Someone apparently never used calipers or slide rules.https://twitter.com/NegarestaniReza/status/1248950988695842820 …
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But “rule-bound mechanizable elementary acts“ describes precisely the operations of both the Antikythera Mechanism and the programmable looms of the 18th & 19th centuries. They are not binary & they predate computer science. I am missing something in your argument.
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Yes, but why do you think by digital I essentially mean binary? By digital I mean any numeric-system with terminating computing functions. Digital > Binary
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