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To: dp0622

they don’t really know but computer sounds official

cosmological simulator is too many syllables for the average reader


28 posted on 07/02/2016 4:45:21 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: bert
Before we had computers we had a thing called a Comptometer (click here), IIRC . . .
32 posted on 07/02/2016 5:55:02 AM PDT by imardmd1 (If you're not at the table you'll be on the menu . . . count on it.)
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To: bert

It was a perfectly good mechanical computer, like a tabulator machine used in the early 20th Century.


35 posted on 07/02/2016 6:12:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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