10,000 Falling Dominoes That Actually Work As a Simple Computer

YouTube is chock full of fall domino TV , but Numberphile ’s Matt Parker may have trumped them all with a complicated10,000 domino setupthat just so happens to function as a very earthy electronic computer . How is such a matter even potential ? This primer video explains the basics .

Depending on how you choose to start the chain reaction , the larger exfoliation reading is able of add any two four - digit binary numbers and returning the result as a five - digit binary sum . So while its figure prowess is n’t exactly judgement - blowing , the fact that this even works ( despite the setup run into a small calculating glitch ) is pretty neat .

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