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Marble Computer

Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 12:41 pm.

Simple mechanical adding machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A

If one were to take a modern CPU and make it mechanical like the video above, the marble cpu would be approximately 200 kilometers in length and width. That is about 125 miles or 15,625 square miles. According to this post, such a cpu would be larger than Belgium, or 59 other countries. It would be the 133rd largest country in the world.

<ThomasEgi> if each marble has 15g weight
<ThomasEgi> and for a full FFFFFFF in all register ..
<ThomasEgi> you'd need up to 2 billion marbles
<ThomasEgi> that makes more than 30thousand tons of marbles

<ThomasEgi> if each marble has 15g weight

<ThomasEgi> and for a full FFFFFFF in all register ..

<ThomasEgi> you'd need up to 2 billion marbles

<ThomasEgi> that makes more than 30thousand tons of marbles

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