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Interesting way of dividing with a machine that can only add - pier4r - 01-07-2023 07:35 PM
The division is interesting! (the subtraction with complement to 9 is also interesting)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlGbblf8deg
RE: Interesting way of dividing with a machine that can only add - Eddie W. Shore - 01-14-2023 06:40 PM
It would take me a while to use a comptometer.
RE: Interesting way of dividing with a machine that can only add - Steve Simpkin - 01-14-2023 09:03 PM
(01-14-2023 06:40 PM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote: It would take me a while to use a comptometer.
Comptometer, it’s worth the wait!
RE: Interesting way of dividing with a machine that can only add - Don Williams - 01-14-2023 09:33 PM
This was a portable handheld from the era when "men were men". Think of the speed. Theoretically you could calculate PI to 100 decimal places in a single lifetime.