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Thursday, May 22, 2014

World's coolest calculator (updated)

Not the world's most portable, or fastest, or quitest(!), but I think it's the coolest.



My mind is not great with numbers, but I think it's great that a real calculator can be built not only mechanically, but so apparently simply.

Update:
Bruce W pointed to this even slower computer:

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous23 May 2014, 17:07:00

    The abacus is a calculator and is not only simple but thousands of years old. THe Soroban is a modern Japanese version.

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  2. Bruce W24 May 2014, 20:10:00

    how about an experiment using 10,000 dominoes to build a computer?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpLU__bhu2w

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  3. Eolake Stobblehouse27 May 2014, 09:25:00

    Thanks, kewl.

    It's funny, I think Dominos these days are more used for the cascade effect than for actually playing Dominos.

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