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      3 days ago

      The phrase mammoth accounting error sounds like a joke from David Macaulay’s cartoons in The Way Things Work, with a mammoth wearing a green visor and looking up from a mechanical calculator with a perturbed expression.

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        2 days ago

        if i could find my old copy of The New Way Things Work, i would absolutely go find the seven-segment LCD section and general-purpose computing pages to post here