UmCikizi
Igama elithi " umCikizi ", elalisetshenziswa kusukela ekuqaleni kwekhulu le-17 (ukubhalwa kwalo kokuqala kusukela ngo-1613), [1] lalisho "umuntu ocikizayo": umuntu oqaqulula izibalo, ngaphambi kokuba iziCikizi zamazuba zitholakale ezitolo. U- Alan Turing wachazisa "isiCikizi esingumuntu" njengomuntu "okufanele alandele imithetho engaguquki; akanalo igunya lokuchezuka kuyo nganoma iyiphi imininingwane." [2] Amathimba abantu, ngokuvamile abesifazane kusukela ekupheleni kwekhulu leshumi nesishiyagalolunye kuya phambili, ayesetshenziselwa ukwenza izibalo ezinde futhi ezivame ukukhathaza; umsebenzi wahlukaniswa ukuze lokhu kwenziwe ngokuhambisana. Izibalo ezifanayo zazivame ukwenziwa ngokuzimela ngamaqembu ahlukene ukuze kuhlolwe ukunemba kwemiphumela.
Indabuko kwezenzululwazi hlela
Ogqayinyanga benkathi yokuVuselelwa babesebenzisa igama elithi umcikizi (computer) ngokufanayo nalapho bethi umchazizibalo, ekubhekiseleni emisebenzini yao yokuqaqulula ukuma kwemizulane. Babevame ukuqasha 'umcikizi' ukuze abalekelele. Kubantu abenza lowo msebenzi, abafana noJohannes Kepler, ukulekelela usonzululwazi ekucikizeni kwakuyisikhundla sesikhashana kuze kube yilapho bekhuphukela phezulu. Ngaphambi kokufackwalhe, uJohn Napier, wasikisela izindlela zokuthi "abantu abafundileyo, okungenzeka banabafundi nabacikizi abaningi" basize ekwakhiweni kwecansi lenhluzanani (logarith table) eliphuculiwe.
- ↑ "computer". Oxford English Dictionary (Third ed.). Oxford University Press. March 2008. "1613 'R. B.' Yong Mans Gleanings 1, I have read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that ever breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number."