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In a list entitled “Epigrams on Programming” published a few years ago, the late and well known computer pioneer Alan J. Perlis said (Epigram 65):
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers — not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
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Scott, D.S. (1990). Computational Logic needs Symbolic Mathematics. In: Lloyd, J.W. (eds) Computational Logic. ESPRIT Basic Research Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76274-1_15
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