How would you explain a computer to someone from Ancient Egypt?

How would you explain a computer to someone from Ancient Egypt?

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Tag, you're it, now compute the 10th number of pi.

With hieroglyphics probably.

What if you don't speak hieroglyphics?

WE WUZ COMPUTERZ AND SHIIEET

show him a youtube vid about it on my ipad

I'm a wizard I don't need to explain shit

>speak hieroglyphics
>speak
>hieroglyphics

first you'd need to explain the fuck ZERO is
you know number 0 didn't exist for a long while for humans

By 1770 BC, the Egyptians had a symbol for zero in accounting texts

But they knew perfectly well what binary is
>have food
>not have food

>get smacked in face
>not get smacked in face

>have to listen to drunk neighbor
>not have to listen to drunk neighbor

really? oh, that's cool, Mayans didn't

The same way I explain it to family
"Its a box of magic"

>implying

tell him to imagine being at computers
Vroooom!

>spaceship
>made from rocks
Go to bed Giorgio

WE

>Mayans
>Some slightly more advanced strain of American Indian, which means they brew their own fire water instead of stealing from the white, and come up with more fucked up ways of killing each other
Comparing that to the Egyptians
>Mediterranean whites
>Longest civilization out there
>Got red pilled on the Jews almost instantly, and almost wiped them out, instead of dealing with the menace perpetually

Weren’t they pretty good at math and astrology? Computers would be easy for them

>Mediterranean
>whites

Imagine being this american

>red pill
I want this meme to go

Deus ex machina

WE HAVE CHANNELED THE POWER OF THE GODS TO PERFORM ULTRA COMPLEX ALGEBRA AT SPEEDS FASTER THAN WHAT THE HUMAN MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND WE USE THAT POWER TO WORSHIP CATS.

it's in all caps because I'd be yelling

>Egyptians
>Mediterranean whites

sorry to break it to you buddy, but you wuznt kangs and shiet

It's an auto-abacus.

Neither were you.

Thunder box of Knowledge.

Thunder box of Knowledge

AhahahahahahahahahahAHahahAHahahahhAH

The pinacle of block chain technology.

>The pinacle of block chain technology.
While pointing to some pyramids.

...

How to explain computers if they haven't got technology for building them?

they was kings. they already have space ships

Assuming I know their language and they won't burn me for witchcraft?

Serious answer:
I suppose all you could really try would be to build the foundations for a mathematical understanding of computability. Build lambda calculus out of first-order logic. Undoubtedly they would need the theoretical mathematics behind computation before they could ever hope to understand anything.

Just showing them a computer and letting them come to the conclusion that it's magic isn't really explaining anything.

>Microscopic inspection of the roots of Ramesses II's hair proved that the king's hair originally was red
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II#Mummy

Faggot.

I have no idea what computer is or does sorry.

>believing this

independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-egyptians-europeans-related-claims-a7763866.html

primitive computers existed. read about archimedes' antikythera mechanism

be like yo, whats up with that pyramid machine of yours, ive got something similar. wanna swap secretz

Most of mankinds knowledge and capabilities in a box.

Main use is to watch porn.

Well we know that they had a rudimentary understanding of electricity, as there are artifacts from that region which functioned as either galvanic cells or electroplating equipment.

Knowing this I would demonstrate combinational logic in the form of a simple electrical circuit to them, followed by a composition thereof which shows to them that complex constructions of combinational circuits allow arithmetic computation as well as control of peripheral devices such as monitors.

I would then demonstrate a clear pipeline from input to output, where inputting two numbers on a number pad followed by a specified operation will cause the circuit to perform the computation and display the result to the output device (an LCD screen).

I would then explain the concept of a turing machine by asking them to read from a list of symbols one by one and write a specific symbol on a different piece of paper according to the symbol read.

Then I would give them a laptop and explain how it is a complex example of the same system.

By stealing it

But you wouldn't know what a computer is either

I would just say

WE

>AND WE USE THAT POWER TO WORSHIP CATS.

underrated

>thinking african demographics haven't changed since thousands of years ago
>wewuzkangz

You mean Ebonics?

It's like an artificial human brain designed to compute mathematics. It's made from metals that conduct electricity (like lightning) that we learned to harness a ways back and our entire global civilization now depends on.

In the future we built analytical engines that harness the power of lightning rather than mechanical movements. We then built a device which allowed the analytical engines to change a tablet covered in crystals to show the results of analysis as they happened. It's broad, but it gets the idea across in terms they could comprehend. Then just find that faggot Ptolemy and show him an iPad.

>The real joke is that iPads don't have a calculator app preinstalled.

are you retarded by any chance? Of course ancient egyptians didn't make spaceships out of rocks, the image clearly reflects aliens helping them moving their pyramids - which by the way were a means of communicating with them.

2 + 2 = 4

If you've ever worked in tech support, you have had to do this on a daily basis.