On 29/09/2011 11:33 AM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Books had O(log N) lookup before computers were invented! :-D
>
>    Computer algorithms are much older than computer themselves. Consider that
> the first person who formalized the concept of "algorithm" as well as many
> key concepts of computability was Alan Turing (yes, that Turing), who died
> in 1954.

The first "computer" was arguably the design by Babbage, and the first 
"algorithm" was allegedly written by Ada Lovelace, who died almost 
exactly 1 century before Turing.

Now if we could establish when the first book with an index was created...

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