The Millionaire Machine - Numberphile
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Date: 2022-04-08
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Comments and reviews: 9
Christopher
It's funny. a processor the size of my pinky finger's nail going at 4 billion cycles a second using trillions of transistors to make billions of 64 bit calculations per second makes me feel meh, but if you bring out a mechanical calculator my jaw drops and I can't believe that something so amazingly complex could exist.
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It's funny. a processor the size of my pinky finger's nail going at 4 billion cycles a second using trillions of transistors to make billions of 64 bit calculations per second makes me feel meh, but if you bring out a mechanical calculator my jaw drops and I can't believe that something so amazingly complex could exist.
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Forest
Also, it's nearly impossible for students to use this antique calculator to cheat on their Math exams. The teacher might just notice the large box hidden under your desk; or at least wonder about the strange cranking noises. Plus, think of all the healthy exercise you get lugging this thing around in your backpack.
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Also, it's nearly impossible for students to use this antique calculator to cheat on their Math exams. The teacher might just notice the large box hidden under your desk; or at least wonder about the strange cranking noises. Plus, think of all the healthy exercise you get lugging this thing around in your backpack.
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Scott
kept waiting, even sadistically hoping, that something would violently spring/burst (bust) forth (out) like it's innards of springs and nuts and bolts, or a jack in the box (with a great sandwich deal, or a small vicious alien, or a bunch of magical imps. etc, etc, etc.
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kept waiting, even sadistically hoping, that something would violently spring/burst (bust) forth (out) like it's innards of springs and nuts and bolts, or a jack in the box (with a great sandwich deal, or a small vicious alien, or a bunch of magical imps. etc, etc, etc.
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Paige
I noticed the wear on the patina at the output reading is more significant the closer to 1 that you get on the readout. Is this an instantiation of Benford's law? Or some other phenomenon?
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I noticed the wear on the patina at the output reading is more significant the closer to 1 that you get on the readout. Is this an instantiation of Benford's law? Or some other phenomenon?
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Trenton
Very interesting and entertaining, but you might want to cut back a wee bit on your coffee consumption. Either that or you just have the energy level of a squirrel in a pecan grove.
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Very interesting and entertaining, but you might want to cut back a wee bit on your coffee consumption. Either that or you just have the energy level of a squirrel in a pecan grove.
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marcoscolga24
-An astonishing old calculator-
Edit: WOW it only cost him 75 dollars? What a steal! Seriously, I would've expected that to have sold for quadruple digits at least!
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-An astonishing old calculator-
Edit: WOW it only cost him 75 dollars? What a steal! Seriously, I would've expected that to have sold for quadruple digits at least!
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numberphile
I've been watching a lot of restoration videos, and I'd love to see something like this cleaned up, polished, and painted, inside and out, to its original glory.
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I've been watching a lot of restoration videos, and I'd love to see something like this cleaned up, polished, and painted, inside and out, to its original glory.
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Octavio
You: hey dude how much is the get together gonna cost
(I take out a millionaire calculator out of my left nostril, crushing both of your feet)
Me, loudly: yes
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You: hey dude how much is the get together gonna cost
(I take out a millionaire calculator out of my left nostril, crushing both of your feet)
Me, loudly: yes
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NGC
Old mechanical stuff is so much cooler looking than modern stuff. There no gears and nobs and pistons and cranks and whatnot. just a bunch of boring electrons
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Old mechanical stuff is so much cooler looking than modern stuff. There no gears and nobs and pistons and cranks and whatnot. just a bunch of boring electrons
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