The Millionaire Machine - Numberphile
Cliff is back with an amazing device - The Millionaire. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More videos with Cliff Stoll: http://bit.ly/KleinBottles Calculator unboxings:...
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Go back a hundred... no, no, no! A hundred twenty years. A hundred twenty years ago, you want to do adding and subtracting, well... you'll do long adding and substracting. If you were really clever, and you were really rich, you would have a French Arithomether. But, if you really wanted to do a lot of arithmethic, You were kinda stuck. Hans Egli, 1894, 1895, Switzerland, came up with an absolutely wonderful device: a calculator... called the millionaire. I'll not only add; it'll multiply, it'll divide... It'll even subtract! So it's a four-function calculator! It has handles on either side. I can lift this up... [Laughing] Just... ...And it only weighs 60 or 70 pounds! A portable calculator smaller than a piano! You can't ge...
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Go back a hundred... no, no, no! A hundred twenty years. A hundred twenty years ago, you want to do adding and subtracting, well... you'll do long adding and substracting. If you were really clever, and you were really rich, you would have a French Arithomether. But, if you really wanted to do a lot of arithmethic, You were kinda stuck. Hans Egli, 1894, 1895, Switzerland, came up with an absolutely wonderful device: a calculator... called the millionaire. I'll not only add; it'll multiply, it'll divide... It'll even subtract! So it's a four-function calculator! It has handles on either side. I can lift this up... [Laughing] Just... ...And it only weighs 60 or 70 pounds! A portable calculator smaller than a piano! You can't ge...
