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"This makes him the father of the computing era, and one of the most remarkable figures in computing history."

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This statement seems vague and somewhat POV to me, for several reasons:

  • Is there any specific historical delineation of "the computing era"? I doubt that there is, other than perhaps the circular one of saying that it started with Schickard.
  • If there is such a thing as "the computing era", there is almost certainly no one figure who can be called its "father". Unless there is evidence of a clear and direct line of influence from Schickard's machine to present-day computing devices, and unless this line of influence is stronger than that from, say, Pascal, Leibniz, or Babbage, calling Schickard "the father of the computing era" seems unfounded.
  • Calling Schickard "one of the most remarkable figures in computing history" seems subjective and also useless.

I agree. It seems NPOV, especially that he is 'one of the most remarkable'. --Ben davison 13:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why is his device described as the first? What about things like the Antikythera mechanism? Eaglizard 17:37, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photo request

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It would be neat to have a picture of the replica. -- Beland 18:08, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Complementary Numbers

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Based on my experience with Wikipedia, I'm surprised the phrase complementary numbers does not have its own Wikipedia article. HankW512 (talk) 09:45, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It does; Listed as Method of complements. CWB (talk) 19:11, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]