Must see: 10,000 falling dominoes arranged to function as a basic computer

[Shawn Knight]

Domino falling videos are commonplace on YouTube with plenty of really impressive setups to check out. But I’d be willing to be that you’ve never seen a domino setup that doubles as a computer that’s capable of adding solving math problems.

The clip is a bit lengthy at more than 22 minutes long but it’s certainly worth the watch. As you’ll see, Matt Parker uses more than 10,000 dominoes to create a circuit that can take any two four-digit binary numbers and return the five-digit binary sum.

Everything doesn’t go exactly according to plan but it’s impressive nevertheless.

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[davislane1]

I watch videos like this and wonder why I didn't choose to major in one of the sciences. Much more exciting projects to be had in these fields than in business finance.

In any event, well done!

 

[Acespaces]

Tyring to do some fake tears at 5:08... Shaking my head

 

[VitalyT]

I was going to say how much a waste of time that is, but then I remembered how I spend my time - posting here

 

[TheLastPanda]

They never said it in the description but I'm fairly sure that they used a song from deamau5's album "4x4 =12". The irony almost makes it okay for not giving him credit....almost

 

[RenGood08]

Well I found this quite fascinating.