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		finghin 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What have been the greatest intellectual achieveme... Agreed! But he was not really pivotal in any application of those ideas, and realistically only had a hint of what they could be capable.

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raddan 5 days ago [–]

That is not correct. Leibniz’ work on calculating machines was hugely influential. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_wheel

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