A little history: [kuro5hin.org] Before ENIAC was engineered, a "computer" was a human being whose job was to do math, e.g. making ballistics tables for artillery, etc.
During WWII the military employed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of human computers.
Frank herbert called them "Mentats".
BTW and OT, the black on dark green on this screen is unreadable to geezers (and possibly to young people as well). I really wish you guys would fix that, thx.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a
clever but highly unmotivated trick.
-- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
Human Computers (Score:5, Insightful)
A little history: [kuro5hin.org] Before ENIAC was engineered, a "computer" was a human being whose job was to do math, e.g. making ballistics tables for artillery, etc.
During WWII the military employed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of human computers.
Frank herbert called them "Mentats".
BTW and OT, the black on dark green on this screen is unreadable to geezers (and possibly to young people as well). I really wish you guys would fix that, thx.
Re: (Score:2)
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1973248&group_id=4421&atid=104421 [sourceforge.net]