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By Rolf Landauer. IBM Journal of Research and Development 5(3), pp. 183–191.

Publisher record: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5392446/authors

Reprinted original text: www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~verga/pdfs/Landauer-1961uq.pdf

Cited passage: logically irreversible computing operations and heat generation; the two-state memory discussion. No claim that every logically reversible operation must dissipate one bit’s erasure cost.

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