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Neal Stephenson Quote

If you had to give a name to the whole apparatus, what would you call it? Hmmm, Waterhouse says. Well, its basic job is to perform mathematical calculations—like a computer. Comstock snorts. A computer is a human being. Well . . . this machine uses binary digits to do its computing. I suppose you could call it a digital computer. Comstock writes it out in block letters on his legal pad: DIGITAL COMPUTER.

Neal Stephenson

If you had to give a name to the whole apparatus, what would you call it? Hmmm, Waterhouse says. Well, its basic job is to perform mathematical calculations—like a computer. Comstock snorts. A computer is a human being. Well . . . this machine uses binary digits to do its computing. I suppose you could call it a digital computer. Comstock writes it out in block letters on his legal pad: DIGITAL COMPUTER.

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