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Linguistic Clue Pushes Back Origin of "World's Oldest Computer"

Posted by timothy on from the multidisciplinary-isn't-just-for-the-dungeon dept.

Calopteryx points out a piece at New Scientist which suggests that the Antikythera mechanism may be even older than previously thought; an ancient Greek word on of the device's dials suggests the device may date to the early second century BC. The article is accompanied by a great animation of its (deduced) workings, too.

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  1. It it hadn't been for the Catholic Church .. by AftanGustur · · Score: 1, Troll

    I sometimes wonder what the world would look like today if the Catholic church hadn't held back scientific research in the middle ages and killed the best and brightest minds..

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    echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc