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minus-squareKubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoRight, so you consider calculators to be computers too? And I don’t mean the beefy scientific calculators, just simple ones with basic operations.
minus-squareoatscoop@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 months ago“Computer” is literally anything that performs computations – it even used to be a job title. “Mechanical Computers” were almost exclusively limited in what they could compute.
Right, so you consider calculators to be computers too? And I don’t mean the beefy scientific calculators, just simple ones with basic operations.
Yes.
“Computer” is literally anything that performs computations – it even used to be a job title.
“Mechanical Computers” were almost exclusively limited in what they could compute.