Even the Ancient Egyptians were doing Computer Science…
The foundations of computation start with the first societies that were using numbers and doing computation. That includes the Ancient Egyptians. They had to represent information and they had to follow algorithms.
The rediscovery of ancient Egyptian society and resulting Egyptology craze also led to some rather surprising links being made.
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Ancient Egyptian Numerals
How data is represented is an important part of computer science. There are lots of ways numbers can be represented. Choosing a good representation can make things easier or harder to do. The Ancient Egyptians had a simple way using hieroglyphs (symbols). It is similar to Roman Numerals but simpler. . … (read on)
Escape from Egypt
The escape character is a small and humble thing, easily misunderstood but vital in programming languages. It is used simply to say symbols that follow should be treated differently. The escape character has a long history dating back to at least Ancient Egypt writing and probably earlier. … (read on)
The Mummy in an AI world
Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 17-year old Victorian orphan, Jane Webb secured her future by writing the first ever Mummy story. The 22nd century world in which her novel was set is perhaps the most amazing thing about the three volume book though.… (read on)
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