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Let's start similar petition for Donald Knuth in the US.

I realize you were trying to be cute but comparing the two individuals in this context is tacky and makes light of the terrible manner in which Turing was treated. Until our society advances more I think it is best to avoid using homophobia as the basis of a witty remark...

The context of this is "put a famous mathematician on the £10" so it hardly makes light of anything.

So the impetus behind this is purely to recognize Turing's contribution to math?

Obviously not, it's near impossible to get into a discussion about Alan Turing without bringing up the way he was treated. However British money already features scientists (Turing, if selected, will replace Darwin) and this has far more to do with recognizing Turing's accomplishments than his treatment.

There are many people who think that it's a good idea to feature scientists on money and making that suggestion for US money isn't in anyway taking Turing's treatment lightly.

You honestly think that months after the pardon refusal this has more to do with recognizing his math/sci accomplishments than his treatment? Is the atlantic in the minority for mentioning "moral turpitude" before enigma?

If that's the case it seems like waiting a little while and letting the pardon refusal fade from recent memory would be a more effective advocacy tactic.

Yes absolutely. If he made no discoveries at all we wouldn't even know who he was.

Do you honestly believe that using this discussion as a starting point for a general discussion on having scientists on money is insensitive?

and introduce a 3.14$ cut ?

Maybe, maybe... But then we'd have to arrange things so that the rate of inflation decreases every year in such a way that the value of the note converges to pi dollars.

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