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|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1942: "Conspiracy theories of about [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have yet to prove their case."
|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1942: "Conspiracy theories of about [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have yet to prove their case."


||1947 First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|1947: First case of a [[Software defect (nonfiction)|computer bug]] being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.


File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1984: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on combinatorics and probability theory, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1984: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on combinatorics and probability theory, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
||1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

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