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Maths and its mechanical analogies 2017-08-11 09:22:25 Post No. 9100071
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How far can a mechanical puter be made to go?
Imagine I=V/R. Link with a chain the three variables, now if you turn the R cog one direction, in this case to represent lowering of resistance, the cog that displays current etc.
There are mechanical shits for the up then down predictor equation but what would take my full attention would be a mechanical comp that would do simple calculus, I would love to see how that worked.
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>>9100071
You can integrate differential equations with mechanical computers, see Vannever Bush's differential integrator.
you can even build a whole turing complete computer and do damm mear anything. The Zuse Z1 is an example of such things.
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Thanks for the pointer.
I would like to see a big warehouse full of these computers.
But i want to understand calculus but am tard. I would really like to see some mathematical machines running.
Or maybe an animation of how all the quantities effect each other in a visual form.
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>>9100100
Tard here, what happens when you integrate ff equation?
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>>9100071
You might want to look into gun laying computers. These were rather impressive and capable of correcting for wind, air density, target tracking and coriolis force.
Also Pic. related.
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>skip building a mechanical transistor
>build mechanical logic gates
>build general purpose cpu (like with a FPGA)
>???
>Can't really profit, sorry
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>>9100123
You can do things like get solutions to equations and run flight simulators. Pic related is a mechanical analog flight simulator.
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>>9100071
I found this video that explains the inner workings of the mechanical computers the US navy used for fire control during ww2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
I think it's related to your question and it's pretty interesting.
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Oh for fucks sake post some mechanical computers. Pic related is a ball and disc integrator. It integrates stuff.
It can be used as part of a differential analyzer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
This is a really nice video explaining an old mechanical computer used for shooting stuff out of the sky.
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This is the zuse z1, a turing complete digital mechanical computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer)
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