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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by nayuki on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:28AM (#30733975)
> The nine lines contain physics, chemistry, material science, biology, medicine, geology, astronomy, engineering and computer science.

I have doubts that these 9 lines describe computer science. As I interpret it, computer science is founded on pure mathematics and is not a physical or empirical science. Computer science deals with perfect abstract mathematical objects like numbers, sets, quantification, recursion, infinities, etc.

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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by ravi-delia on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:53AM (#30734212)
Considering that these lines specify our laws of physics only if you grant that math is a thing, you could argue that all of mathematics gets in for free ;). Sort of like how ZFC can't encode basic logic, but you still need it for axioms to make sense
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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by PrettyPebble on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:34AM (#30734043)
Good point - but it needs computers...
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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by ianbooker on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:46AM (#30734142)
Strangely not. You can do CS on paper, no need for a single bit-flipping device. Turing did half the field in his head / a thought experiment.
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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by PrettyPebble on Saturday March 19, 2022 @11:24AM (#30734508)
And input and ouput devices ...
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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by ravi-delia on Sunday March 20, 2022 @01:07PM (#30744421)
Then you're not really doing computer science anymore, you're doing computer engineering
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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by PrettyPebble on Sunday March 20, 2022 @04:05PM (#30746108)
OK - taken out.
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