Antikythera Mechanism

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Antikythera Mechanism

Post by Dust » 29 Jan 2011 16:39

Slashdot has an interesting article about a lego replica of that first "computer".

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01 ... m#comments

And the even cooler youtube movies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBQuFavAE8

It's simple mechanics, but enough to do multiplications and divisions.
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