Can guitar frets perform multiplication?

HoldOnAMinute

Vibrating strings are Turing-complete

coverband

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

lioeters

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)

Syzygies

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.

FpUser

The question is can those frets run Doom

karim79

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

bgrainger

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

JKCalhoun

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

scentoni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN