Mechanical calculator in action

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Joseph DiGiovanni

Joseph DiGiovanni

Күн бұрын

My mechanical calculator with a basic explanation for basic operations

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@nyfinancestudent
@nyfinancestudent 8 жыл бұрын
Pulls out this machine during the SAT...
@MRJTHEGAMER329
@MRJTHEGAMER329 7 жыл бұрын
lol
@richardhall9815
@richardhall9815 7 жыл бұрын
I used a slide rule on my Chem exam just for kicks. Much more practical than an adding machine. Much smaller, lighter, quieter, and much faster to do any operation other than addition or subtraction.
@largol33t1
@largol33t1 3 жыл бұрын
@@richardhall9815 What I find hilarious is I've seen a race car team use slide rules. However, what's amazing is they were using it to calculate fuel burn rates so they would know on what lap their driver would run dry. The system was amazingly accurate to within 1-2 laps! I have never used a slide rule so I don't know how they used one to calculate their driver's fuel mileage.
@Larken42
@Larken42 3 жыл бұрын
Shot by desk neighbour
@C_Castillo
@C_Castillo 2 жыл бұрын
Exam proctor: you cannot use DIMMs latest model, it would give you an unfair adavantage over the other students, only the 1948 and prior models are allowd during this exam Student: ...
@josephe3697
@josephe3697 7 жыл бұрын
I was taught statistics in 1961 using a similar machine.
@qwertykeyboard5901
@qwertykeyboard5901 4 жыл бұрын
Nice
@novarnas
@novarnas 4 жыл бұрын
@@qwertykeyboard5901 nice
@scouthanamura2380
@scouthanamura2380 3 жыл бұрын
nice
@kdtool9437
@kdtool9437 3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@supernt7852
@supernt7852 2 жыл бұрын
Nice
@ariebakx
@ariebakx Жыл бұрын
I used this machine extensively when I was a surveyor in the army’s artillery devision. We calculated the coordinates of guns and targets with it. We had to operate it blind and blazing fast. 0 to 5, 5 clicks from the top. 6 to 9, all the way down and back up 3 clicks. The handle on the right was held between your bend index and middle finger. Next to log and sine tablets. That was back in 1972.
@ariebakx
@ariebakx Жыл бұрын
@@manikyum Well, the Netherlands army doesn’t have the reputation of being real “killers”. In those days we were drafted and trained to fight against the Russians. Even in 1972 they were “the enemy”. How true ……
@allejandrodavid5222
@allejandrodavid5222 Жыл бұрын
Clicks = kilometers?
@python_b
@python_b 10 ай бұрын
​@@allejandrodavid5222 In that context - no. It is a literal click the mechanism makes when you push the lever down to input a number. First click - 1, second click - 2, etc. And to input without looking at the display you listen to those clicks.
@RD-ht6go
@RD-ht6go 9 ай бұрын
Is there some sort of range chart for it?
@Etcher
@Etcher 9 ай бұрын
Amazing insight, thanks
@DukeCyrus
@DukeCyrus 6 жыл бұрын
I love the sounds this thing makes, almost makes me want to buy one just to use it
@lemoneer7474
@lemoneer7474 Жыл бұрын
⁠@Cat_EditsssI would love to have a mechanical calculator too, and yes I’m also late to saying things too.
@LiamSirBean
@LiamSirBean Жыл бұрын
@@lemoneer7474 I would love to have a mechanical calculator too, and yes I’m also late to saying things too.
@lastknownwolf
@lastknownwolf 11 ай бұрын
ASMR calculator
@JamesQMurphy
@JamesQMurphy 10 ай бұрын
@@lastknownwolfmy thoughts exactly… the sounds would make great ASMR content. And I’m late saying this.
@holom1838
@holom1838 9 ай бұрын
Totally same! but I am scared I would play with it only for a couple of days and either go on the display or attic. Sorry I am late saying this.
@jcortese3300
@jcortese3300 5 жыл бұрын
I do so love technology that doesn't need to be plugged into anything.
@timehunter9467
@timehunter9467 2 жыл бұрын
You should see the mechanical calculators that you do plug in, they’re awesome to see working.
@mega_micro
@mega_micro 2 жыл бұрын
baterries
@suspense_comix3237
@suspense_comix3237 2 жыл бұрын
@Benjamin Pilgrim However an everyday pocket calculator is: - boring - uninteresting - you can’t see any of the mechanisms, it’s all just silicon components - widespread With a mechanical calculator you can: - easily see how it works and every single moving component of it - they sound cool because of all the clicks and clacks of mechanical devices inside it - not very common
@suspense_comix3237
@suspense_comix3237 2 жыл бұрын
@@timehunter9467 Like the Friden STW10?
@suspense_comix3237
@suspense_comix3237 2 жыл бұрын
@@mega_micro ​ However an everyday pocket calculator is: - boring - uninteresting - you can’t see any of the mechanisms, it’s all just silicon components - widespread With a mechanical calculator you can: - easily see how it works and every single moving component of it - they sound cool because of all the clicks and clacks of mechanical devices inside it - not very common
@gregorpesek
@gregorpesek 8 жыл бұрын
Imagine coming to an exam with this thing :D
@henryattfield8979
@henryattfield8979 3 жыл бұрын
I would
@DB-thats-me
@DB-thats-me 3 жыл бұрын
I did! UE, in NZ, 1976. In fact, I still have 3. Only one in full working order.
@mdahsenmirza2536
@mdahsenmirza2536 3 жыл бұрын
@@DB-thats-me damn
@speed2574
@speed2574 2 жыл бұрын
@@DB-thats-me cool
@heloyu2012
@heloyu2012 6 жыл бұрын
This machine is a piece of artwork
@WELLINGTON20
@WELLINGTON20 3 жыл бұрын
It’s mass produced. Nope
@timbuk1126
@timbuk1126 3 жыл бұрын
@@WELLINGTON20 who says it can't be art can't be mass produced. The truth is that it's a work of art and engineering.
@JamesReedy
@JamesReedy 3 жыл бұрын
They are neat, if you like this go look at the Curta Type 1 and Type 2...I have a Type 2 and it's a marvel of engineering with a pretty wild backstory.
@johnsrabe
@johnsrabe 2 жыл бұрын
@@timbuk1126 amen. A design can be art. Looks like functionally, it’s highly impractical … which might make it art as well! ;-)
@MrRupeshW
@MrRupeshW Жыл бұрын
@@WELLINGTON20 that fact that such a capable machine could be mass produced makes it more than a masterpiece.
@N_KKEN
@N_KKEN 2 жыл бұрын
This is a great way to learn division! I recall the moment when I finally figured out how manually dividing big numbers worked out, and this perfectly visualized this.
@PlasticBubbleCosplay
@PlasticBubbleCosplay Жыл бұрын
Definitely! I would have never thought of this mechanical process -- likely was the basis for the engineers when developing electronic computers.
@nomms
@nomms Жыл бұрын
​@@PlasticBubbleCosplayComputers deal with arithmetic very very differently. Computers work with base 2 and everything has to be designed using boolean logic with logic gates. Read up on an ALU or play the puzzle game Turing complete. Turing Complete will give you a working knowledge of how computers work at the lowest, least abstracted level. ALUs are circuits for dealing with arithmetic.
@premiumsomdier
@premiumsomdier Жыл бұрын
divide by zero
@antonnym214
@antonnym214 8 жыл бұрын
The moveable "bottom display" is called the carriage, just like on a typewriter.
@fritz46
@fritz46 Жыл бұрын
This machine can do so much more! You totally missed the multiplication of big numbers, e.g. 2345 x 4567. You don't enter 4567 and turn 2345 times, you only turn 5 times, then shift to the right, turn 4 times, shift to the right, turn 3 times, shift to the right, turn 2 times. Basically you do it like you would do it on paper! To check your result, your second multiplier should now show up in the turn counter. You can get a division result with decimals if you enter the dividend as far left as possible (316400000 / 13 = 24338461; you just have to remember where to put the decimal point). You can even calculate square roots using Toepler's algorithm (not much more difficult than doing a division), but this space is too small to explain it. Google is your friend!
@rmcevoy2
@rmcevoy2 8 жыл бұрын
We actually used this in the bank in the 70's when doing forex transactions. I was quite a wizz on it.
@Jeffrey314159
@Jeffrey314159 7 жыл бұрын
Rene McEvoy "forex transactions"?
@rmcevoy2
@rmcevoy2 7 жыл бұрын
foreign currency exchange rate calculations
@Jeffrey314159
@Jeffrey314159 7 жыл бұрын
Rene McEvoy Oh I see now! By the way, it is WHIZ, not WIZZ. Taking a wizzthat is when you take a piss😉
@rmcevoy2
@rmcevoy2 7 жыл бұрын
Jeffrey314159 Where I come from, we use the word wizz to indicate that we are excellent. We therefore do not use it as a verb.
@IvyANguyen
@IvyANguyen 6 жыл бұрын
I thought that was Wiz, too. Like wizard.
@Ali107
@Ali107 5 жыл бұрын
divide by 0 please
@어질어질하네-k8h
@어질어질하네-k8h 5 жыл бұрын
It's division performed with subtraction, so you have to spin it counter-clockwise infinitely
@Ali107
@Ali107 5 жыл бұрын
@@어질어질하네-k8h so attach a motor to the thing
@Dayserking
@Dayserking 5 жыл бұрын
You need to leave!
@charlieangkor8649
@charlieangkor8649 4 жыл бұрын
@@어질어질하네-k8h not infinitely. only until the wear on the machine causes it to fall apart.
@bobibest89
@bobibest89 8 жыл бұрын
How many GB of RAM ?
@martilezeon8500
@martilezeon8500 8 жыл бұрын
this is mechanical, I don't think it will have RAM
@superperfectstranger815
@superperfectstranger815 8 жыл бұрын
over 9000!
@martilezeon8500
@martilezeon8500 7 жыл бұрын
No Im patient ~
@foxbud
@foxbud 7 жыл бұрын
I know you were just joking, but I figured out that it has exactly 9.56805815563 bytes (76.5444652451 bits) of "RAM".
@superperfectstranger815
@superperfectstranger815 7 жыл бұрын
***** that's a lot
@CBTman99
@CBTman99 3 жыл бұрын
I used to buy lumber from a lumberyard in Argentina and the owner used a similar calculator to determine the price based on the type and dimensions of the wood. The funny thing was that he had to use Imperial units and do the conversions to metric on this calculator because in Argentina the metric systems is prevalent (except for lumber, pipes, fittings, electrical conduits, and electrical boxes).
@woooshbait9696
@woooshbait9696 11 ай бұрын
Now divide by 0
@JasonZawTunBlgps
@JasonZawTunBlgps 5 ай бұрын
That’s illegal.
@geargrinder4784
@geargrinder4784 Ай бұрын
You trying to crash it?
@harrisonvc9175
@harrisonvc9175 6 жыл бұрын
As an aspiring mechanical engineering student my mind is just totally blown right now. How tf..... how was this made? How does it work? How did they make it so compact without rendering it fragile? Even if I took this thing apart slowly I dont know if I could even begin to figure this thing out. Things like this are exactly why I'm choosing this as my major :)
@umarshunan9121
@umarshunan9121 5 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4mwpn2ZpJ2ipLM
@leifvejby8023
@leifvejby8023 2 жыл бұрын
Take a look at the Curta calculator. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHXRkHd6qKeKrdU
@kato_dsrdr
@kato_dsrdr 2 жыл бұрын
It's made with logic gates.. But I don't know how they made it so compact..
@suspense_comix3237
@suspense_comix3237 2 жыл бұрын
It’s crazy to understand that back then these calculators weren’t even designed with 3D printers or CAD software or anything! They were all designed with pen and paper math, LOTS OF MEASUREMENTS, etc. I someday hope to design something mechanical but IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BUILD SOMETHING AS COMPLICATED AS THAT WITHOUT MODERN TOOLS LIKE 3D PRINTERS.
@suspense_comix3237
@suspense_comix3237 2 жыл бұрын
@@kato_dsrdr No, it’s made with all the mechanical devices like gears and axles and stuff. If it was made using logic gates the thing would be HUGE and electromechanical, not mechanical.
@chadcastagana9181
@chadcastagana9181 6 жыл бұрын
Division operation looks tedious after a while. A simple straightforward test of these mechanical calc's accuracy is to multiply 12345679 times 45, the answer should always be 555555555 on these machines.
@serpentzachary1340
@serpentzachary1340 2 жыл бұрын
I love the portability of this calculator, it's great especially for the 50's.
@JulinAlex
@JulinAlex 7 жыл бұрын
Try division by zero ☺
@aidensmith6277
@aidensmith6277 6 жыл бұрын
Julin Alex do you wish to kill us all?
@CristiNeagu
@CristiNeagu 4 жыл бұрын
I know that's a joke, but in reality, i don't think it would do anything. Division is done by subtraction here, so subtracting 0 from something does nothing.
@martilezeon8500
@martilezeon8500 8 жыл бұрын
today I encountered one in a little agriculture museum, and I played with it for a while it was a pity that I haven't figured out how it works. I have to go back to that house again. ((:
@dextercochran4916
@dextercochran4916 Жыл бұрын
We had mechanical computers like this in the 30s. A lot of people don't know this, but the fire control centers on WWII battleships used mechanical computers to calculate firing solutions.
@nitsu2947
@nitsu2947 7 ай бұрын
I heard but those mechanical computers sure took a lot of variables and is pretty accurate too
@dextercochran4916
@dextercochran4916 7 ай бұрын
@@nitsu2947 I mean, they could ballpark a 23-mile shot. So...
@jamesslick4790
@jamesslick4790 Жыл бұрын
For some reason I am more impressed with this than I am with modern digital calculators!
@lucasp1813
@lucasp1813 6 жыл бұрын
Wow. This just made me smile in awe.
@RodknockRhett
@RodknockRhett 8 жыл бұрын
Bring this to a math class as a prank...
@j365383
@j365383 7 жыл бұрын
that sad thing is this machine calculates higher then most modern calculators XD
@thatoneguy9028
@thatoneguy9028 6 жыл бұрын
A 10$ calculator can go up to 9.99 e 99. More than atoms in the universe
@teresashinkansen9402
@teresashinkansen9402 5 жыл бұрын
Well if you buy something as expensive (on its time) and heavy as this mechanical calculator in modern hardware (a desktop computer with a powerful GPU), you can process billions of times more floating point operations than all the computational power in existence in 1958. So don't be silly.
@TechnikMeister2
@TechnikMeister2 4 жыл бұрын
My first job was an accountant at the original Coopers & Lybrand in 1971. Out audit files were often inches thick and were full of tables and schedules, all of which had to be checked for accuracy becuase they formed the basis of the balance sheets and P&Ls of the companies we were auditing. We gave the file to a comptometer operator who used one of these as well as a comptometer machine. I good operator was a highly skilled person and very well paid. They could go through a big file in less than a day. And they usually found mistakes. They did it all blind...they just ran down the lists by eye and both hands were going flat out. It was amazing to watch.
@PopeLando
@PopeLando Жыл бұрын
There is no physical computing machine that can add a column of printed figures faster than a Comptometer operator. "Whaddya mean? A spreadsheet can add them in a microsecond!" But someone had to type those numbers into the spreadsheet, one snail-like digit at a time!
@TechnikMeister2
@TechnikMeister2 Жыл бұрын
Yes, but with hundreds of schedules and tables all in reports, it would take you a month to enter them all into spreadsheets so the the computer could do all the math. In the meantime, annual reports would have been sent to the printers. @@PopeLando
@rubberswan
@rubberswan 9 жыл бұрын
That's a nice looking calculator. I have a number of Odhners and Facits. Mechanical calculators all work in pretty much the same way (with the main differences being in the operation of the back transfer mechanism). A nice video.
@ludicer122
@ludicer122 6 жыл бұрын
2:29 Q U I C K M A T H S
@Touk1-u7i
@Touk1-u7i 11 ай бұрын
It's easier to learn how to do the math by hand than how to use this machine lol
@xVMouseVx
@xVMouseVx 10 ай бұрын
Imagine a time when everyone pulled this stuff out for a math test
@BryndanMeyerholtTheRealDeal
@BryndanMeyerholtTheRealDeal 8 ай бұрын
I wonder what would happen if you multiply two large numbers on this, like a billion times a million?
@jdigi78
@jdigi78 8 ай бұрын
Not too interesting actually, it would just flip the one in the 1 quadrilionth place, but since it doesn't display numbers that big it would overflow with a garbage output of mostly 9s.
@yeetmanthe2nd529
@yeetmanthe2nd529 7 ай бұрын
Teachers who say "you won't always have your phone with you" when I pull this out
@InssiAjaton
@InssiAjaton Жыл бұрын
Brings memories❤! We did the bulk of our technical calculations with pencil and paper PLUS a slide rule during my study years. But there were times when the slide rule resolution did not suffice and the pencil on paper felt too cumbersome. A case in point was the exercise of determining the Rydman constant. My room mate studied items related to surveying and he could at times borrow a mechanical calculator from the school for his needs. I started drooling for one myself and eventually found one just barely affordable used unit somewhere. It was brand "Brunsviga", with probably a couple digits less than the unit shown in 8:02 this video. Another one available, a "Facit" was way beyond my financial means. So I used the Brunsviga for the calculations where the slide rule was not adequate, until my graduation and a little longer. A special algorithm that my room mate had shown me produced Square Roots! Anyway, at some point Hewlett Packard came out with their famous HP35 scientific/engineering pocket calculator. I bought one and was extremely happy with it, even though it did not provide support for drafting and ruler feature like some slide rules had done. Anyway, I decided to give the Brunsviga to my brother, who then took care of our farm book keeping. So, the second (?) hand Brunsviga found yet another use. If you can dig out and demonstrate the square root algorithm in operation, I believe that would be well worth another video!
@varoonnone7159
@varoonnone7159 11 ай бұрын
I'm seriously impressed ! Keep that calculator, always
@jgonz1325
@jgonz1325 Жыл бұрын
*takes this to proctored exam*
@chrisholder4978
@chrisholder4978 Жыл бұрын
This be insane commentary.... Willy Wonka's calculator....
@samersam2314
@samersam2314 5 жыл бұрын
what kind of sorcery is this
@foxbud
@foxbud 7 жыл бұрын
Curiosity got the best of me, and I figured out that this machine has exactly 9.56805815563 bytes (76.5444652451 bits) of "RAM". Explanation: First, what could be considered RAM in this machine? In a modern computer, RAM would simply be the memory the CPU uses for storing calculations (disregarding the caches and CPU registers). The analog for this machine would be the accumulator and counting register within the carriage, as those are the memory used for storing calculations. The accumulator contains 13 base 10 digits. That means that each of those 13 wheels can take on a value between 0 and 9 for 10 total possible values. The counting register is a little more tricky. It can take on values between 0 and 9 for addition, but it can also take on red values between 0 and 9 for subtraction. Does this mean it can take on 10 + 10 = 20 values? No, not quite. Addition and subtraction both share common 0 and 9 values, subtracting 2 from the previous total. That means that the counting register contains 8 base 18 digits. We now know that the carriage can represent a total of (10 ^ 13) * (18 ^ 8) = 1.1019960576 * 10 ^ 23 unique values. The minimum number of base 2 digits (or bits) require to hold this number is 77. The problem is that 2 ^ 77 can represent more values than (10 ^ 13) * (18 ^ 8) can, (2 ^ 77) - (10 ^ 13) * (18 ^ 8) = 4.09161216918 * 10 ^ 22 values to be exact. So we can't say the answer is 77 bits. To get the exact number of bits required, we need to solve the following equation for x: 2 ^ x = (10 ^ 13) * (18 ^ 8) by taking the log base 2 of each side. This gives us x = 13 * log base 2 of 10 + 8 * log base 2 of 18. This doesn’t, however, give us a great intuition for what’s going on. Instead, let’s figure out exactly how many bits of information each wheel in both the accumulator and counting register represents. Let's look at the accumulator wheels first. We know that each wheel can represent 10 total values. 3 bits, or 2 ^ 3, can store 8 values, while 4 bits, or 2 ^ 4, can store 16 values. So the number of bits is between 3 and 4. We're looking for the number of bits it takes to represent exactly 10 values. We can find this by solving for x in the following equation: 2 ^ x = 10. This gives us log base 2 of 10, which is roughly equal to 3.322, the number of bits required to represent 10 values. Repeating the same process for the counting register wheels, we get that each wheel represents log base 2 of 18 bits, roughly 4.170. The accumulator contains 13 wheels, and the counting register contains 8 wheels. The resulting expression to find the exact number of bits of "RAM" this machine has is 13 * (log base 2 of 10) + 8 * (log base 2 of 18), the same equation from earlier, except we now know what each term means. This finally gives us an exact value of 76.5444652451 bits, or 9.56805815563 bytes. And no, I don’t have a life. :c
@vladimirdanila9895
@vladimirdanila9895 6 жыл бұрын
you can't have 76.5444652451 bits, bits can only be represented by integers.
@foxbud
@foxbud 6 жыл бұрын
You're exactly right. I was looking at it from just a theoretical perspective. The trouble is that the base 10 and 18 digits on this machine don't perfectly translate to an integer base 2 value. In terms of "real" bits, it would have to be rounded up to 77, but keep in mind that 77 bits can store ever so slightly more information than this calculator's memory can hold.
@kevinmencer3782
@kevinmencer3782 4 жыл бұрын
I'd say you do have a pretty cool life. Here you are, taking time to share knowledge with people on social media, on your own initiative. Basic logic; one cannot learn if others are not willing to teach.
@Sciguy95
@Sciguy95 7 ай бұрын
This is why my math teacher always said i wouldnt be walking around with a calculator in my pocket.
@jeremielebrun3637
@jeremielebrun3637 4 ай бұрын
if I undersatnd, when you divide one billion by five, it gives you bulky forearms ?
@Cesarsound1
@Cesarsound1 4 жыл бұрын
1 : 0 and the machine goes mad.
@johne7100
@johne7100 4 жыл бұрын
I have one of these - different make, same principle - bought on a fleamarket years ago. It doesn't work for one reason: metal gears running on nylon and wearing it away. Still, I didn't pay much for it. I have an idea that the older, pre-nylon, models might work better today. The same applies to old cameras: around 1960 the dreaded plastic gears appeared and the life expectancy went out the window.
@mr.cheese9752
@mr.cheese9752 8 ай бұрын
hello this video is really old but I hope you see this comment, I just want to say this is really cool
@tonbridgeroy
@tonbridgeroy 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this video I remember using a similar machine to this one in maths class when I was a pupil at Oldborough Comprehensive School Loose Maidstone Kent UK in 1977 or 1978 - I was around 11 or 12 years old and I never did fathom how to use one properly, (too complicated for me). Amazing how technology has moved on in such a relatively short period of time.
@harkendoich2
@harkendoich2 Жыл бұрын
Just had to reply as I live just down the road from Loose in Maidstone.
@tonbridgeroy
@tonbridgeroy Жыл бұрын
@@harkendoich2 Thanks for stopping by to say Hello, small world isn't it.
@masterofthecontinuum
@masterofthecontinuum 9 ай бұрын
When the teacher says "no electronic devices" allowed during the test
@mr.ackermann807
@mr.ackermann807 Жыл бұрын
Always a pleasure to watch mechanical contraptions like this work. Glad I came by this.
@bonelessChillies
@bonelessChillies 10 ай бұрын
Now divide a number by 0 on it, it would turn into an engine
@Xx_Mr_Wery_Crazy_Play_YT_xX
@Xx_Mr_Wery_Crazy_Play_YT_xX 8 ай бұрын
imagine making speedrun of this...
@tamkakit1233
@tamkakit1233 5 жыл бұрын
Ding
@charlieangkor8649
@charlieangkor8649 4 жыл бұрын
if you throw it off the International Space Station, will it make a crater or burn up in the atmosphere faster?
@lagoliri2
@lagoliri2 Жыл бұрын
If you divide be zero, does it explode?
@xavtek
@xavtek 4 жыл бұрын
If only we had this to learn math in school ...
@TravelwithSiva15
@TravelwithSiva15 11 ай бұрын
Imagine using this on the SAT's
@samuelculper7125
@samuelculper7125 11 ай бұрын
That is a cool device!
@tzisorey
@tzisorey 4 жыл бұрын
In Back To The Future 3 (SPOILERS) the DeLorean is destroyed, and Doc Brown comes back with a time machine built into an old steam train. THIS is the sort of date input control that I imagine it had.
@mhdhisham9784
@mhdhisham9784 11 ай бұрын
This looks satisfying as hell 💀
@emanueler6434
@emanueler6434 5 жыл бұрын
Can it divide by 0?
@BartManNL
@BartManNL 5 жыл бұрын
No one can divide by zero... On this machine, division is repeated subtraction where the turncounter gives the result. Depends on how long you keep turning the handle which answer is gives...
@bassel_1532
@bassel_1532 4 жыл бұрын
how much is that. I want to buy this bro. If is 1,000 i will buy it because i have a lot of money. I have more than 2 billon $
@jdigi78
@jdigi78 4 жыл бұрын
I'll sell for 1 billion
@JohnSmith-zw8vp
@JohnSmith-zw8vp Жыл бұрын
I find fascinating what different mechanical calculators do if you try to divide by zero!
@fritz46
@fritz46 Жыл бұрын
You subtract 0, and you'll have to turn for all eternity until the bell rings.
@georged8545
@georged8545 8 жыл бұрын
Hi Joseph, I am looking to use this footage for a television show, if you would be open to this please respond to this comment. Thanks!
@jdigi78
@jdigi78 8 жыл бұрын
I'm open to this. You can contact me privately at jdigiovanni78@gmail.com and provide more information
@carlosnava8351
@carlosnava8351 4 жыл бұрын
When did zuko start his KZbin channel?
@salimctak8106
@salimctak8106 3 жыл бұрын
¿
@skyfuzzball8312
@skyfuzzball8312 10 ай бұрын
Let's try division with 0 in this calculator
@MTP2nd
@MTP2nd 9 ай бұрын
The MTP calculator: "Division by zero is undefined"
@Mizai
@Mizai 2 жыл бұрын
try devide by 0
@atkby
@atkby 9 ай бұрын
"Железный Феликс"
@savibang4412
@savibang4412 Жыл бұрын
Divide by zero 😈
@cyclenut
@cyclenut Жыл бұрын
I grew up at the point where transistors were just starting to take over... I learned to use slide rules, adding machines (Similar to yours) and now obsolete transistor calculators. In high school, typewriters were still used, small (desktop) computers were just coming out.
@roachtoasties
@roachtoasties Жыл бұрын
I'm sold! I'm heading down to Target to buy a Dimm mechanical calculator. I hope they're not out.
@kevinharrigan2727
@kevinharrigan2727 7 күн бұрын
Honestly I was kind of surprised at how simple it was for you to use this thing. I wish I had a mechanical calculator, they’d fit right in with my typewriters!
@NickAndriadze
@NickAndriadze 10 ай бұрын
Actually I have an extremely similar looking Soviet version that is called ''Felix'' and it works very similarly to this too. It is less complex and doesn't have the cool features that this one has, like the convenient levers to push the lower panel around. Instead it has a janky lever like thingy that moves it left or right (One number order each push) depending on in which direction (where) you push it which tends to get stuck a lot... Also it has little propellers with roughly similar shape as the Russian ф character which do all the resetting. This one's definitely more sophisticated, but I really love mine too, I have it alongside two other ones which I still- call Felix, but don't actually have their name displayed (Apparently they were produced after 1972 or something after which the original Felix became redundant, and fittingly they are much more sophisticated, with actual number keyboard and front-back buttons that shift the order around. They also have a much boxier look, sleeker for the lack of a better word). They're much more intuitive and fun to play around and worth with, but I still prefer the almost alien spaceship look of the old Felix. Speaking of which, my Felix very cool teal color, even though I've seen white, grey and black ones too.
@Overneed-Belkan-Witch
@Overneed-Belkan-Witch Жыл бұрын
Always wowed me how much we have become From mechanical to digital electronics calculator My scientific calculator still functioning and battery didn't run out till now
@husseinbahaa3599
@husseinbahaa3599 4 жыл бұрын
Oh my God high school would have been like hell with this kind of calculators
@MikkoRantalainen
@MikkoRantalainen 3 жыл бұрын
I think these kind of calculators were too expensive for high school students. Even a high quality slide ruler was about as expensive as smart phones are today.
@mandolinic
@mandolinic 4 жыл бұрын
I remember my school in the 1960s bought ten or so similar machines. I think they were made by a company called Odhner.
@ahmetarifkose2335
@ahmetarifkose2335 5 жыл бұрын
I very be impressed
@salimctak8106
@salimctak8106 3 жыл бұрын
I didnt
@PercyNPC
@PercyNPC Жыл бұрын
When teacher said student can bring the calculator in to the class. Me:
@faithfulliew
@faithfulliew 6 ай бұрын
If Archimedes had this contraption back in the day, we would've found a parallel universe by now... 😂
@NickyDIY101
@NickyDIY101 3 жыл бұрын
The inventor is Genius!!!
@larssjodahl7660
@larssjodahl7660 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting this up, and going through it so well explained. I will play with mom's, and make plans to make a steam-powered One.
@salimctak8106
@salimctak8106 3 жыл бұрын
Bruh
@jamestaylor2976
@jamestaylor2976 8 ай бұрын
Hate to admit but we had mechanical calculators in 1974 where I worked. They were in use, not just sitting there!!!
@NixillShadowFox
@NixillShadowFox Күн бұрын
Why wouldn't you just start with the leftmost digits lined up during division? A division (with quotient ≥ 1) is never possible if the divisor has more digits left of the decimal than the dividend.
@jdigi78
@jdigi78 Күн бұрын
I'm not sure what you mean. If you're referring to when I did 3000-13000 at 6:11 it was just for demonstration purposes
@kaustavchatterjee4158
@kaustavchatterjee4158 8 ай бұрын
Interesting video! The division seemed quite complicated though.
@billogle4776
@billogle4776 2 жыл бұрын
DIMM another copy of William Odhners Calculator
@KCCardCo
@KCCardCo 10 ай бұрын
I don't know how much you paid for this but I can remember in 1990 in garage sales and at thrift stores, flea markets you could get these for a dollar. There would be a section at a flea market where these were all next to each other dirt cheap. If you made an offer for 50 cents they would take it.
@Itsappuru
@Itsappuru 9 ай бұрын
Operating this is more complex than actually doing math...
@Wyrmwould
@Wyrmwould 3 ай бұрын
Im as impressed by these kinds of machines as I am by modern smart phones. Human are truly the most clever creatures in the garden.
@justcurious1940
@justcurious1940 3 ай бұрын
Damn, this looks more complex than electrical calculator.
@B88-h6n
@B88-h6n 4 ай бұрын
SOLID! They don’t build it as they used to no more!
@danielunderwood9651
@danielunderwood9651 5 ай бұрын
I see that division is slow on computers AND mechanical calculators lol
@faniandiaz1313
@faniandiaz1313 Жыл бұрын
Hermosa....saludos de argentina vendo una igual al.mejor postor
@tlarson91119
@tlarson91119 4 жыл бұрын
I want one of these so bad! This is awesome
@charlieangkor8649
@charlieangkor8649 4 жыл бұрын
try division by zero what the result will be
@okaro6595
@okaro6595 4 жыл бұрын
Since division is done by repeated subtraction it will subtract nothing You can rotate the crank until you get bored, nothing happens.
@milestailsprower4555
@milestailsprower4555 Жыл бұрын
@MichaelSkinner-e9j
@MichaelSkinner-e9j 10 ай бұрын
Why am I getting a video for mechanical calculator?
@RunsWithKniefs
@RunsWithKniefs 11 ай бұрын
My friend bought one from an antique shop I love to divide by zero just to hear it ding
@ProducerGio
@ProducerGio Жыл бұрын
Damn bro had put at 1.5x speed. You slow af. Good vid tho.
@TofranBohk
@TofranBohk 8 жыл бұрын
That's pretty cool!
@salimctak8106
@salimctak8106 3 жыл бұрын
No ıts not
@danny6_6_6
@danny6_6_6 4 ай бұрын
Is this where the term 'crunching numbers' was born?
@atomicreptiliascreator738
@atomicreptiliascreator738 9 ай бұрын
I wonder what would happen if you divided by zero on this thing.
@prabhusankar8346
@prabhusankar8346 11 ай бұрын
I can hear Casio laughing at the background!! 😂
@celdur4635
@celdur4635 9 ай бұрын
insert some digital stuff inside and you get Star Wars tech
@RedVRCC
@RedVRCC 7 ай бұрын
Kinda wanna see what happens when you divide by zero.
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