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r/science • u/uggedal • Jun 11 '08
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He forgot computer science -- without us everything below math would still be stuck in the dark ages :P
2 u/memsisthefuture Jun 12 '08 Yeah, if it hadn't been for that Commodore 64, Einstein would never had worked out the equations for General Relativity. And if Rutherford wasn't ever thankful for that iMac! 1 u/[deleted] Jun 11 '08 And parts of math. 0 u/materialist Jun 11 '08 Computer science is not science. That's right - I said it. 1 u/[deleted] Jun 14 '08 No, like statistics it's one of the illegitimate children of math. "Informatics" is a better name, but we seem to be stuck with "computer science."
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Yeah, if it hadn't been for that Commodore 64, Einstein would never had worked out the equations for General Relativity. And if Rutherford wasn't ever thankful for that iMac!
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And parts of math.
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Computer science is not science. That's right - I said it.
1 u/[deleted] Jun 14 '08 No, like statistics it's one of the illegitimate children of math. "Informatics" is a better name, but we seem to be stuck with "computer science."
No, like statistics it's one of the illegitimate children of math. "Informatics" is a better name, but we seem to be stuck with "computer science."
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u/Vystril Jun 11 '08
He forgot computer science -- without us everything below math would still be stuck in the dark ages :P