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Wikipedia say that calculating the date of Easter was called the Computus in the middle ages 'as it was considered the most important computation of the age'
Makes me wonder what the most important computation of our age is?
@767 GPS? All the calculations that make the internet possible? Image compression? Load balancing for national electricity networks? Dunno. What is most fundamental to modern society?
Good suggestions. The algorithms we use for routing across the internet might be the one.
I like GPS too. It feels much more like one big single thing we all use. It's also, like the Computus, based on time and stuff flying though space!
@767 Dow Jones Index, maybe?
Or currency conversion rates.