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Mechanical computing

Mechanical computing

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Mechanical computing

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Mechanical computing

Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature (London), 2021-10, Vol.598 (7879), p.39-48

Language

English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

Mechanical mechanisms have been used to process information for millennia, with famous examples ranging from the Antikythera mechanism of the Ancient Greeks to the analytical machines of Charles Babbage. More recently, electronic forms of computation and information processing have overtaken these mechanical forms, owing to better potential for min...

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Mechanical computing

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2580026759

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2580026759

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ISSN

0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/s41586-021-03623-y

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