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TIL NASA used to employ women as human calculators and NASA had whole rooms devoted to them (www.youtube.com)
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Katherine Johnston and Euler's method

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More than just NASA, the word "calculator" used to be a job title not a device.