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Everything is Crabs: How many crabs do you need to land on the moon?

Posted on March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 By Andrew Thaler
Everything is Crabs: How many crabs do you need to land on the moon?
Education, Featured, Science

In 2011, researchers from Japan and the Center for Unconventional Computing in the UK asked one of the most important questions ever asked. How many crabs do you need to build a computer? And then, they answered it. If you want to build a computer from scratch, you must first invent a logic gate. Using … Read More “Everything is Crabs: How many crabs do you need to land on the moon?” »

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