We often think of analog computing as a relic of the past, room-sized monstrosities filled with vacuum tubes doing their best ...

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Call it the world’s oldest analog computer, if you like. Either way, it’s a testament to human kind’s enduring capacity for inventiveness and precision. A deep X-ray tomography scan in 2006 ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek analog computer that is believed to be used to help teach Greeks about our place in the cosmos. Credit: National Archaeological Museum ...

The same circuitry can also be used to generate squares and square roots that could be employed in an analog computer. Digital circuits are typically inexpensive, adaptable, and reliable.

There was a time when it wasn’t clear analog computers wouldn’t dominate. But although they failed to win the computing architecture war, they are still around. As [Bill] points out ...