Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2
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Uploaded by wired on May 2, 2008
The Difference Engine was an accurate mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage in the 1840s, but was never built in its inventor's lifetime. Here, its modern builder explains how it works.
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@juggaleaux fucking dumb ass
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@TheGoombaLover but then it would turn into a steampunk mecha @__@
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@alecail can it play icp?
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@juggaleaux The usual joke is "Will it blend ?", not "Can it run Portal?". You failed..
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make it divide by zero
2 months ago 3
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Early days of Computer... fascinating....
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@thekkl No, an abacus only stores numerical values. It cannot "read" or store any kind of instructions, or even carry automatically.
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@lawiley Doesn't an abacus calculate?
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I think we are missing the bigger point. This is the beginning of the idea that machines can be used for calculations. The next step after the slide rule and the abacus. The industrialization of calculation.
lawiley 2 years ago 51
Can it run Portal?
juggaleaux 9 months ago 31