Good choice
Could not have been a better choice in my opinion:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48962557
So clever my foot fell off.
Good choice
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
An excellent choice.
Agree
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Good choice - and that reminds me that I need to sort out going up to Bletchley Park with friends.
After being in Cornwall last week and only using cash the feel, design and security of all british banknotes is far superior to the equivalent Euros, and they look a damn sight better too.
Bummer, that reminds me, I now have to go to a bank and get rid of old notes before they turn to toilet paper.
Fas est ab hoste doceri
Design ✔️
Another plastic note ✖️
Does it really make a blind bit of difference to me? No,'cause the likes of me don't have £50 notes
Great choice. Was pleasantly surprised when I read that
Do we need a £50 note?
These days I rarely spend cash on anything and never anything costing £50...
M
Great choice, Rosalind Franklin would have also been a great choice. Grossly underknown lady scientist, died before the Nobel for DNA - which went to Watson and Crick.
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Great but I no longer see the need to have any note larger than a tenner in circulation.
Great choice of design. The man was a colossus (pun intended).
Re the use of fifty pound notes, I use cash all of the time. How else would I buy a pricey watch at an antiques market? It's all cash.
FWIW I'm not keen on the new plastic notes, they stick together a bit too much for my liking.
Apropos of nothing my Mrs found some old paper tenners last week, took them to the bank and exchanged them with no bother.
Cheers,
Neil.
I’m a cash person too, if I don’t have it I can’t overspend.
Someone has converted the binary that’s shown on the note and it’s his birthdate, a nice touch.
Cheers..
Jase
I cannot think of a more deserving person. Fantastic in spirit and in execution.
That’s a quality touch.
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It's a great choice for the digital age, however rather than having the father of mondern computers why didn't they have the grandfather as well - Charles Babbage.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Another week and it would have been Ben Stokes...
Although no trees were harmed during the creation of this post, a large number of electrons were greatly inconvenienced.
Great choice, and it is no coincidence that the emblem for the largest private company on the planet is an apple with a bite taken out in tribute to him.
Turing was the father, Babbage a bit more of a distant great uncle.
Dave
ICYMI - Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing'
Zee LINKYMaciej Pisarski, deputy chief of mission, Polish Embassy in Washington, said: "The story of Engima was very important to us and the breaking of Enigma code was one of the most important contributions of Poland to the Allies victory during the Second World War.
"Out contribution to Enigma is something that we learned a lot about as children in Poland but we have a feeling that the knowledge is not so widespread. It was a crucial association which gave the allies the edge over the Germans.
"We were trapped on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War which meant we did not get the credit that we should have received and nobody wanted to admit that anyone in Eastern Europe had anything to do with Enigma.
"We felt it was important to fill in the blanks. It is our moral obligation to right this wrong and put this picture in a more complete way."
The Enigma machine was invented by German engineer Arthur Sherbius at the end of the First World War and was used by the military and governments of several countries. The British had struggled to work out how to crack the early Enigma machines, and by the early 1930s the Poles were way ahead.
Poland’s main codebreakers were Jerzy Rozycki, Henryk Zygalski and Marian Rejewski who joined the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau in Warsaw.
While Britain still used linguists to break codes, the Poles had understood that it was necessary to use mathematics to look for patterns and had broken some of the early pre-war German codes.
They had then taken a further step by building electro-mechanical machines to search for solutions, which they called "bombes".
On the eve of war in 1939 Bletchely codebreakers Alastair Denniston and Dilly Knox met with members of the Cipher Bureau at a secret facility in a forest in Pyry near Warsaw to share their knowledge.
Alan Turing, also later visited the Polish codebreakers and used their knowledge to develop his own "bombe" capable of breaking the more complex wartime Enigma codes.
But the Poles have received little credit, most notably in the recent film The Imitation Game, where their contribution was dismissed with a single sentence.
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Well argued :)
M
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Here's something I didn't know 5 minutes ago.
BBC News - Britain's £1m and £100m banknotes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21145103
Interesting read.
I want one
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It will be interesting to see what or who features on a Scottish equivalent note.
The current Scottish fiver illustrates Nan Shepherd on one side and two smoked mackerel on the other side.
No wonder I spent an additional 2 hours trying to pay for a car in Liverpool with Scottish notes.
Well deserved.
You probably have seen this recent speach about Mr. Turing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJbE0r27mFs
Its good to see this kind of acknowledgement but I agree with previous comments as regards £50 notes - they are hardly widely used. I cant recall the last time I had any.
Would have been much better to have him on a £5 or £10 - it would have given him a much higher profile and hopefully have prompted more discussion across a greater cross section of the population.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
The irony being that the new £50 note won't be accepted anywhere, just as Turing wasn't.
It is misleading for the BBC and others to imply or indeed state that Alan Turing was an innocent, harmless homosexual who was persecuted by an intolerant society in the 40s and 50s - he was widely known to be a paedophile and a predator of young boys between the ages of 11 and 15. The evidence of his grooming and predatory activities - provided by friends and ex-lovers - is overwhelming.
Today's society may be more tolerant of homosexuality but it is probably less tolerant of paedophilia. So there is a strong argument to say that Alan Turing would be even less accepted today than then, when the Authorities appear to have turned a blind eye to Turing's darker side.