From time to time, I would find something truly remarkable on the web and the following is a good example:
Matthias Wandel was able to contruct a wooden adding machine that adds binary numbers. However, the most curious thing about it is that it is operated by marbles. Just watch the video to see its mechanism. Even those of you who are not fond of mathematics can appreciate this.
Oh how I wish I was still a woodwork and maths teacher.
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Really fun to watch! I was waiting to see what would happen if it went over 64.
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There are 10 kinds of people. Those who can count in binary and those who can’t.
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Brilliant comment.
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There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, those who don’t and those who didn’t realize the joke was in base three.
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Kind of weird that all our centuries of mathematics is, in part, a result of how many fingers we evolved to have. We could easily have been base 8 or base 12 or something else.
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There’s a possibility of that if that’s the case.
Anyway, the Mayans and Aztecs used base 20 while the Sumerians and Babylonians used base 60.
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Ingenious!
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Cool!
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Thank you..☺️
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I lost my marbles long ago. 🙂
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