this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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I'd say before the 19th century, this theoretical computer would be so much slower that even the idea of constructing such a machine wouldn't occur to people, cause there is no problem it would solve and no task it would help with.
It would help with playing solitaire if they didn’t have a deck of cards nearby