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Quote by Knuth


From: Christopher Dimech
Subject: Quote by Knuth
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:18:33 +0200

> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 at 10:25 AM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
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> Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth
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> Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> > LaTeX is not about actual computation, but the production of
> > a document.
>
> LaTeX has algorithms so it is computing.
>
> Don't know what "actual computation" is tho? Actually?

Computation in the sense of what Galileo meant.  Determining location
of cosmic bodies, determining functions based on indirect measurements,
computing probabilities of some phenomenon.  That is what I mean by
computation.

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