Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves

Re:Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the ... by jjoonathan on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:18AM (#7420327)

I think you'd use all the mass in the observable universe long before the GNU Multi-Precision library started sweating :)

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Re:Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the ... by eru on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:29AM (#7420475)

If you were naive. You can probably cheat (ie be more clever in your construction).

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Re:Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the ... by jjoonathan on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:18PM (#7423342)

I suspect that once you had found a way to get the asymptotic cost growth under control you would find you had build a digital mechanical calculator.

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Re:Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the ... by eru on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @09:59PM (#7426388)

My money would be on that as well, though not at crazy odds.

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