Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files==== Antikythera Mechanism ==== Grok it, steampunks. <blockquote>The Antikythera Mechanism is a unique Greek geared device, constructed around the end of the second century BC. It is known that it calculated and displayed celestial information, particularly cycles such as the phases of the moon and a luni-solar calendar. … Named after its place of discovery in 1901 in a Roman shipwreck, the Antikythera Mechanism is technically more complex than any known device for at least a millennium afterwards. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/full/nature05357.html</blockquote> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism * http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/4/#endnote1 By way of footnote: <blockquote>When assembled precisely, analog computers can be much more accurate than digital computers on these types of questions. Because they use physical rather than digital inputs and outputs, they can represent curves and other geometric elements of calculations with an infinite level of resolution (though the precision of those calculations is based on how well their parts are machined, and loss from friction and slippage). There are no least significant digits dropped, and answers are continuous rather than dependent on “for-next” clock-driven computing cycles. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/gears-of-war-when-mechanical-analog-computers-ruled-the-waves/</blockquote>Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International antikythera_mechanism.1397003695.txt.gz Last modified: 2014-04-09 00:34by alkan