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\n<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\nBack again. The year is 1953. Manhatan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a slightly unusual request,\u201d said Dr. Greatman, with what he hoped was commendable restraint. \u201cAs far as I know, it\u2019s the first time anyone\u2019s been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. I don\u2019t wish to be inquisitive, but I should hardly have thought that your \u2014 ah \u2014 establishment had much use for such a machine. Could you explain just what you intend to do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGladly,\u201d replied the lama, readjusting his silk robes and carefully putting away the slide rule he had been using for currency conversions. \u201cYour Mark V Computer can carry out any routine mathematical operation involving up to ten digits. However, for our work we are interested in letters, not numbers. As we wish you to modify the output circuits, the machine will be printing words, not columns of figures.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t quite understand….\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries \u2014 since the lamasery was founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while I explain it.\u201d<\/p>\n
(short story by Arthur C. Clarke, “The Nine Billion Names of God”, 1953)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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