Oddbean new post about login | logout Yeah. Compute was a term for calculation verb and noun far earlier than a term for computers.
That’s wild. I thought the first “computers” were people in a room writing stuff on paper but I didn’t know something could have “compute” or do “compute” or whatever
That’s what’s great about here, I don’t feel like the oddball because I don’t know a random thing , I’d have been filleted on X for not knowing the latest slang term for instance
Earliest evidence of compute as noun is from 1483
I’d love to read that, whatever it is - I enjoy etymological stuff like this
Provided there’s a translation if it’s in Dutch
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrimage_of_the_Soul
Nice! I’ll check it out
Didn’t find the word compute in that wiki