Elberfeld's Calculating Horses

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  • Elberfeld: a suburb of Wuppertal in Germany.
  • Elberfeld was the home of Clever Hans, a horse that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks.
  • ECH the backward initialization of HCE as if through the looking glass.
  • In Swift's Gulliver's Travels , the Houyhnhnm are a race of intelligent horses whose society is based only upon reason.
  • Possible Humpty Dumpty reference, sounds a bit like "All the King's Horses"