[HN Gopher] Big Data for the Leviathan
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       Big Data for the Leviathan
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2024-10-31 03:58 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.lrb.co.uk)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.lrb.co.uk)
        
       | RunSet wrote:
       | https://archive.is/vW9ZA
        
         | libraryofbabel wrote:
         | Thanks! FYI there's a typo in the author's name in the archived
         | version that has since been fixed in the original. Correct name
         | is Jessica Marie Otis.
        
           | selimthegrim wrote:
           | It is correct in the main text in the archive.
        
         | worldvoyageur wrote:
         | No paywall on the original source for me.
        
       | stevesimmons wrote:
       | This is a fascinating article about arithmetic calculations
       | during the transition from Roman to Arabic numerals in 1500-1600
       | England. Well worth reading. Full of historical surprises.
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       | "Without nomberynge a man can do almost nothynge. With the helpe
       | of it, you maye attayne to all thyng."
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       | -- Robert Recorde, 1543
        
       | selimthegrim wrote:
       | I was kind of hoping Kieran Healy wrote this
        
       | PLenz wrote:
       | In a similar vein I recommend Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston,
       | an excellent history of calculators that also spends a lot of
       | time on how we humans calculated before we had them
        
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