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    COMPUTING PRE-HISTORY

    May 28, 2019 2 minutes

    to be accepted as an analog computer is the Antikythera Mechanism. Dated to around 100 BC, it was used in astronomy to determine the positions of celestial bodies decades in advance. Only fragments of it remain, but detailed imaging suggests it could even model the irregular orbit of the moon. You can find a simulation of the Antikythera Mechanism at . It only

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