MiataDrivers - Ancient Computers, Part I - Rediscovery, Edition 2
Stephen Kent Stephenson
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Ancient Computers, Part I Stephen Kent Stephenson epub Ancient Computers, Part I Stephen Kent Stephenson pdf download Ancient Computers, Part I Stephen Kent Stephenson pdf file Ancient Computers, Part I Stephen Kent Stephenson audiobook Ancient Computers, Part I Stephen Kent Stephenson book review Ancient Computers, Part I Stephen Kent Stephenson summary | #4285689 in Books | 2013-07-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.19 x5.00l,.20 | File type: PDF | 74 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Sympathetic and plausible speculation about the tools/techniques of ancient human calculators|By Jacob Rus|Steve Stephenson, a retired engineer (and later retired schoolteacher) spent several years researching historical abacuses / counting boards, and thinking about how they might be used for complicated computations, taking the design of the Salamis Tablet (https://en.wikiped||Ancient Computers is an excellent introduction to the calculating methods of diverse cultures across time. A mixture of history and practical techniques for understanding and using these ancient devices brings the tools of these long-forgotten ci
People, especially historians, have long struggled to appreciate and understand how Ancient Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians, et al, were able to do their arithmetic calculations. Many say the Ancients "probably" used line abacuses or abaci, a.k.a. counting boards. But most then trivialize the possible impact that use would have on the Ancient cultures because they really don't think those abaci would be very powerful and would be extremely hard to use.
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