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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines computing as “the use of operation of computers”; similarly, computation is defined as “the action of mathematical calculation.” In daily life, we often find these words being used interchangeably even though the scientific community makes a distinction. Let’s first analyze computation as it appeared first in human civilization, formally with the invention of numbers.
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Upadhyaya, B.P. (2017). Introduction to Computing. In: Programming with Scala. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69368-2_1
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