joshbensadon via Groups.Io wrote:
Here's a weird thought... what would computer programming look like if
we still used Roman Numerals?
We switched from decimal to binary when we started inventing computers. That was necessitated by the hardware. So if the Romans invented computers, I suspect they would have invented binary as well.
But... do computers need numbers at all? There are analog computers that don't quantize values. There are also neural nets, and fuzzy logic, and optical computers that process data in very different ways. There is still debate over exactly how our brains work!
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