Matt Parker and a team of Domino Computer Builders balanced over 10,000 dominoes in a carefully designed circuit. The result was a Domino Co...
Matt Parker and a team of Domino Computer Builders balanced over 10,000 dominoes in a carefully designed circuit. The result was a Domino Computer capable of automatically adding numbers. It can take any two four-digit binary numbers and return the five-digit binary sum.nnIt's a computer, made of dominoes.nnWatch the Numberphile where Matt explains more of the maths: http://youtu.be/lNuPy-r1GuQnAs well as the secret Numberphile bonus interview: http://youtu.be/rEw2hE8ZRlYnnThere are free worksheets and teaching resources about binary numbers and logic gates here:nhttp://think-maths.co.uk/downloads/domino-computer-worksheets nnComputer design:nMatt Parker, Katie Steckles, Paul Taylor, Andrew Taylor, Siân FryernnBuilders:nBen Curtis, Becky Smedley, Mike Bell, Blair Lavelle, Andrew Pontzen, Jonathan Sanderson, Elin Roberts, Chris Roberts, Ben Ashforth, Gillian Kiernan, David JulyannnThanks to Marieke Navin, Natalie Ireland, Nicola Frost and everyone at the Museum of Science and Industry who made this possible. http://www.mosi.org.uk/nnHuge thanks to Jonathan Sanderson at StoryCog for making the video. http://storycog.com/ Less