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Re:“Computer science is not about computers” by tom_mellior on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:03AM (#27332320)
> Turing machines are arbitrary and rather unmathematical.

Thus proving the point that a field that studies them cannot be considered a branch of mathematics.

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Re:“Computer science is not about computers” by antonvs on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:37PM (#27338099)
That might be true if there were no more natural mathematical representations of computation. But as I've pointed out in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334163), there is such a representation - the lambda calculus.
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