{"id":1002,"date":"2010-12-17T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2010-12-17T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T17:34:50","slug":"computers-doing-old-timey-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/2010\/computers-doing-old-timey-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers Add Like an Egyptian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"501\" height=\"306\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ih1ZWE3pe9o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/12\/16\/ancient-egypt-math-computer_n_797806.html\" target=\"_blank\">saw this video<\/a> of mathematician Michael S. Schneider explaining how modern computers &amp; ancient Egyptians share binary methods of arithmetic. Its really neat to see how multiplication &amp; division are achieved using binary. So simple &#8211; yet so powerful!<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">huffington post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw this video of mathematician Michael S. Schneider explaining how modern computers &amp; ancient Egyptians share binary methods of arithmetic. Its really neat to see how multiplication &amp; division are achieved using binary. So simple &#8211; yet so powerful! via huffington post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[84,83],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yDEm-ga","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}