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How brilliant and conceptually advanced Were the Phoenicians’ high seas predecessors, The Polynesians, For the latter had long centuries earlier Discovered the binary system of mathematics Whose ‘congruence in modulo two’ Provided unambiguous, Yes - no; go - no go Cybernetic controls Of the electronic circuitry For the modern computer As it had for milleniums earlier Functioned most efficiently In storing and retrieving All the special-case data In the brains of the Polynesians By their chanted programming And their persistent retention Of the specific but no longer comprehended Sound pattern words and sequences Taught by their successive Go - no go, male-female pairs of ancestors.
