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File:Brainiac Action Comics 242.png|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] challenges [[Superman (nonfiction)|Superman]] to convert force into computation.
File:Binary counter.gif|link=Computer science (nonfiction)|Binary counter offers to help Ishango bone study for final exam in [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]].
File:Binary counter.gif|link=Computer science (nonfiction)|Binary counter offers to help Ishango bone study for final exam in [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]].
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* [[Computer science (nonfiction)]]
* [[Computer science (nonfiction)]]
* [[Mathematics (nonfiction)]]
* [[Mathematics (nonfiction)]]
* [[Trapped ion quantum computer (nonfiction)]]


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Revision as of 20:36, 22 June 2017

The Ishango bone (nonfiction), believed to be more than 20,000 years old. The notches represent computation of some kind -- perhaps tallying, perhaps something more complex. Note the piece of quartz set into the end of the stick.

Computation is any type of calculation that follows a well-defined conceptual model which is understood and expressed in a useful manner, such as an algorithm.

Calculation is a term for the computation of numbers.

Computation is a wider reaching term for information processing in general.

The study of computation is paramount to the discipline of computer science.

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