(Source: Bank of England)
Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post readers who sent a link to this piece from the BBC News:
Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing will feature on the new design of the Bank of England’s £50 note.
He is celebrated for his code-cracking work that proved vital to the Allies in World War Two.
The £50 note will be the last of the Bank of England collection to switch from paper to polymer when it enters circulation by the end of 2021.
[…]”Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today,” said Bank of England governor Mark Carney.
“As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as a war hero, Alan Turing’s contributions were far-ranging and path breaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.”[…]
People have already converted the binary on the note to decimal.. and the number is Alan Turing’s birthday …
Nice touch 🙂
(and something that will be in pub quizzes for the next 50 years!)