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[kurupetos]

[Cap]

Bless those ancients

[kurupetos]

Bless those ancients

Our duty is to become better than them...

[supporttheunderdog]

This is indeed a magnificent piece of mechanical engineering on the part of the Greeks

[bill cobbett]

World's Second Earliest Computer...

[supporttheunderdog]

An even older (British) Astronomical Calculator - but not so portable -

astronomy-stonehenge-au-in.jpg

Controversy of Ancient Prediction--- Stonehenge Astronomy
http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/gem-projects/hm/0304-1-08-eclipse/Controversy%20of%20Ancient%20Prediction.htm

[GreekIslandGirl]

World's Second Earliest Computer...

Good. That too.

Although mentioned by Herodotus as in use in Greece from much earlier, "the earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC. The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations. This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.
A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far." wiki

[bill cobbett]

World's Second Earliest Computer...

Good. That too.

Although mentioned by Herodotus as in use in Greece from much earlier, "the earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC. The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations. This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.
A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far." wiki

World's Earliest Computer... ... ...

[supporttheunderdog]

World's Second Earliest Computer...

Good. That too.

Although mentioned by Herodotus as in use in Greece from much earlier, "the earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC. The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations. This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.
A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far." wiki

World's Earliest Computer... ... ...

LMFSO

[tsukoui]

I hate to burst Gig's bubble. I like her, she defends Cyprus with a passion, though she should embrace her Turkish side a bit too, not to mention her African heritage.

This from http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/

"The oldest fossils of modern man are nearly 150,000 years old. Probably on a rainy day, a human walked in wet sand near what is now known as Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains between South Africa and Swaziland. In the 1970's during the excavations of Border Cave, a small piece of the fibula of a baboon, the Lebombo bone, was found marked with 29 clearly defined notches, and, at 37,000 years old, it ranks with the oldest mathematical objects known. The bone is dated approximately 35,000 BC and resembles the calendar sticks still in use by Bushmen clans in Nimibia."

I know I'm going to get into trouble for this one. Poor Cypriots.