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Ticker tape and a binary message: Bank of England's new Alan Turing £50 must be the nerdiest banknote ever

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>I can't tell why any reference to Turing also has to reference his sexuality?

Age 23, wrote seminal paper on computable numbers and the fundamental model for modern computing

In WW2, played a critical part in decoding German military and naval communications

Age 39, was chemically castrated by the UK state for consensual sex

2 years later killed himself

Now can you tell?

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