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This dimension groups computing concepts by the era in which they first emerged. Wikipedia notes that "the fundamental concern of computer science is determining what can and cannot be automated," a concern whose answers have grown and changed across every era of the field. Browsing by origin era lets a visitor compare concepts that arose in the same period.

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825 CE 1
1970s
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1. Wikipedia: Algorithm
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Around 825 AD, Persian scientist and polymath al-Khwarizmi wrote kitāb al-ḥisāb al-hindī ("Book of Indian computation") and kitab al-jam' wa'l-tafriq al-ḥisāb al-hindī ("Addition and subtraction in Indian arithmetic").
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