Before words become arrows
by Froga
What Words as arrows builds on: why a computer needs words as numbers, when two arrows point the same way, subtracting one arrow from another, and analogies in plain words. About ten minutes.
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Everything a computer does with meaning starts by turning words into numbers. Once each word is a list of numbers, "how alike are these two words?" becomes arithmetic.
A computer can compare two lists of numbers, but not two words directly. So before it can tell that "big" and "large" are alike, it has to…
multiple choice
Aturn each word into a list of numbers
Bcount the letters in each word
Clook both words up in a dictionary
Dcheck whether they start with the same letter
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