Can guitar frets perform multiplication?

42 points - yesterday at 10:40 PM

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Syzygies today at 1:11 AM

https://vimeo.com/194116649

Steve Martin in conversation, 2002. 34:20 to 36:00 is this exact question.

Later, Robin Williams joins him on stage. My cameo starts at 1:01:40, inaudible and off-camera, because I'd traded a seat up close for two in the balcony so my future wife could join me.

JKCalhoun today at 3:16 AM

I threw together a logarithmic slider for HTML (when I knew little about JavaScript and HTML). I hoped someone would take it and run with it and we would see more logarithmic slide rule calculators on the web.

(Top, yellow slider, cannot be interacted with):

https://www.engineersneedart.com/ohmslaw/index.html

Sources (such as they are):

https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule

lioeters today at 12:57 AM

This post is by the same author as the Lost Art of Logarithms. https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/

Discussed about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 (196 comments)

bgrainger today at 2:34 AM

Hard to believe that article doesn't contain the phrase "slide guitar".

coverband today at 12:28 AM

I'm blocked for some reason, probably too much HN referred requests...

karim79 today at 2:12 AM

Loved the article. Didn't love being blue-balled by the conclusion but still great stuff.

FpUser today at 1:47 AM

The question is can those frets run Doom

HoldOnAMinute today at 12:06 AM

Vibrating strings are Turing-complete