• ValiantDust@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Well, most people already forgot where it originated. That is from people whose job was to compute stuff by using tables, calculators and paper.

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      I’m a freaking history teacher whose father was a computer scientist in the 70s and I didn’t know this until I read Hidden Figures