Schu Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 One man, invented binary counting, worked on the hunt for the Neutron, fixed WW2 Radar Stations and build a part of the computer that 'CRACKED' the Enigma Code. a fantastic video on scale of two counting and binary... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 C.E. Williams was certainly brilliant! Having studied the Basic Assembler computer language decades ago, I have an inkling of what he accomplished there. Obviously a genius, he certainly laid a foundation for what the world is today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emile Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 Awesome One slight correction ... he did NOT invent binary counting; mostly accredited to Leibniz (circa 1700), but (quote from Wikepedia) "we owe the groundwork of today's computing (edit i.e. binary) not to Leibniz but to the Englishman Thomas Harriot and the Spaniard Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz (1606-1682), whom Leibniz plagiarized." Williams constructed the first electronic binary counteR - a really amazing feat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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