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  • Bank of England unveils new banknote celebrating WW2 code-breaker Turing

    03/25/2021 2:57:12 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 35 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 25th 2021 | Reuters Staff
    The Bank of England unveiled the design of a new banknote celebrating mathematician Alan Turing, who helped Britain win World War Two with his code-breaking skills but is believed to have killed himself after being convicted for having sex with a male partner. The new 50-pound ($69) note features an image of Turing, mathematical formulae from a 1936 paper he wrote that laid the groundwork for modern computer science, and technical drawings for the machines used to decipher the Enigma code. The polymer note also carries a quote by Turing about the rise of machine intelligence: “This is only a...