He say's it's an adding machine, but in the end, he has to add numbers together to get to the final answer.
It's an accumulator, not an adding machine. He calls it a "result state" which...
Sure, if you happen to know that all the "bits" to the right of the last bit, are the next bit - 1, then it's easy to know that 11111 = 31. But if you had to add 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = (unclear by inspection)
+5 1. Duuude commented 16 years ago on video Mechanical calculator
He say's it's an adding machine, but in the end, he has to add numbers together to get to the final answer.
It's an accumulator, not an adding machine. He calls it a "result state" which...
Sure, if you happen to know that all the "bits" to the right of the last bit, are the next bit - 1, then it's easy to know that 11111 = 31. But if you had to add 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = (unclear by inspection)
= waste of time.