Is there a significance to when Mathematica 1.0 was introduced date wise?
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- Subject: [mg40857] Is there a significance to when Mathematica 1.0 was introduced date wise?
- From: <zeno1234 at mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:46:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
It is considered that the first stored computer program was run on June 21, 1948 on the Manchester Mark 1 computer. See this web site for more information... http://www.computer50.org/ Mathematica 1.0 was introduced on June 23, 1988, (for the Macintosh). That is 40 years and 2 days after the first stored program was run in 1948. Was the Mathematica introduction in any accordance with the 40 year anniversary of the first program to be run, or is it just coincidence?