Subject: Etymology of 'Compute'
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@buffalo.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:20:28 -0500 (EST)

You might find the etymology (i.e., word history) of 'compute'
to be interesting:

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/computetymology.html