NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Socalled, Clay Tablet, Sym Motors

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Where there is life, there are numbers: pre- history of computing (c) z. stachniak, 2011 informal and unedited notes, not for distribution. Our present day reality is often referred to as the digital age; we often speak about ourselves as consumers of information. However, we don"t need to look very hard to see that our civilization is based on more elementary concepts than computers and information, con- cepts such as numbers and counting. We see numbers, hear num- bers, read them and write them many times a day. We qualify objects using numbers: we measure them, we weight them. We speak about progress and the luck of it with numbers. Each individual carries an assigned set of unique numbers: social security number, student number, bank account number, passport number, driver"s licence number, your age and weight, your height and size of shoes. Without numbers there would be no civilization as we know it, there would be no mathematics, no computers.

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