An old joke in physics is that of the “spherical cow”, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a ...

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Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary ...

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Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969.