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- Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Antikythera Mechanism (2013 Jan 20)
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Re: APOD: The Antikythera Mechanism (2013 Jan 20)
The Antikythera Mechanism is not a mechanical computer, it is an analog computer, like a clock, a pedometer, a gas meter... Analog computers are meant to model a physical phenomena like the motion of planets, tide-prediction ... Analog computers are set once and then activated by a mechanism like a ...