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1. Erkan Yılmaz (erkanyilmaz)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2013 18:25:54 EST Erkan Yılmaz

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   • Markov Dosto(y)evsky
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   What do you think then about the 2100-year old analog computer #Antikythera mechanism "designed to calculate #astronomical positions" ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism cc @question
   • Erkan Yılmaz (erkanyilmaz)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2013 18:49:02 EST Erkan Yılmaz

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     • Markov Dosto(y)evsky
     Do you know that also #Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) and Benjamin #Franklin (1706-1790) lost against the Mechanical Turk but "the operator(s) within the mechanism during Kempelen's (1734–1804) original tour remains a mystery"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk cc @question