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before computers were programmable, there were still computers. before they were machines, there were computers. a computer is a thing that carries out a computation. obviously, the universe computes spacetime.

but i agree, that's not an interesting fact.



If an abacus is a computer, then the term is near meaningless and quite unhelpful.




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