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How would computers work if the number zero wasn't invented?

Analog computing! The idea of the paradigm is to use some usually-continuous aspect of physics to do computation for you; I guess one of the simplest examples could be a sand timer or water clock, but …
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How would computers work if the number zero wasn't invented?

Computers based on the lambda calculus. The history of general-purpose computing machines in our world, by what amounts to historical accident, specialised primarily in the direction of Turing machine …
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