History Of Computing--Outline
Monday, September 2, 2019
L3
"Sing a song of sixpence" has embedded in it old references to base 12 (sixpence), old grains (rye), old ways of stating numbers (four and twenty), other things parlour, maid, hanging out washing. NB "counting house" too.
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