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Ted Nelson

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Ted Nelson

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Ted Nelson is pointing out that the common belief that computers only work with numbers is incorrect. Instead, computers can process and handle any type of information, not just numerical data.

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