Ancient computing technology : from abacuses to water clocks

Did you know . . . - Ancient cultures measured time accurately with water clocks? - An engineer in the first century B.C. designed an odometer to calculate distance traveled? - People computed the first values of pi about four thousand years ago? Computing technology is as old as human society itsel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woods, Michael
Format: EBOOK
Other Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Lerner Publishing Group:Lerner Publishing Group 2011
Series:Technology in ancient cultures
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