Ad-O-Master Jr Review / HowTo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- The Ad-O-Master Jr., The Magic Calculator, made by the Mystoplane Company in 1941.
This is episode 56 of my video series about old calculating devices.
Scan of the quiz book:
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End song inspired by "Hotter than a Molotov" by The Coup.
#mystoplane #adomaster
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Mystoplane photo from Henry Ford Museum
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Stupid "Stumped the internet" problem is here:
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that was realy poetic at the end. reminded me a bit of the way the guy from regular car revies does his thing.. in an other context... and without swearing... i got your chanel shown a few days ago and now i binch watch your calculator videos... highly pleasing and well scripted.
What an absolutely unexpected crossover.
Thank you! You make the best videos about old calculating devices in entire known universe in my opinion.
That ending. The WTYP guys and gals were right, you should have half a million views per video.
I don't know why I care so much about these kinds of devices. But I do. And I'm almost brought to tears to find someone who cares about them and collects them and shows them too. I have some ideas for some uses for them, but my caring about this stuff is wildly out of proportion to the usefulness of those ideas. I just love this. Thank you so much.
Nicely presented, an interesting toy-thing. I was never good at math nor particularly interested in it. I liked geometry though, and only recently I came to understand why - I liked drawing and using tools to "make" all the triangles, circles, tangents and whatnot. Despite my strained relationship with maths, I recently became interested in older calculators. Perhaps it is the electronics part of it. And I like pushing those buttons.
If you like pushing buttons, you’ve come to the right place. ;-)
I liked geometry because I could see it and understand it. Algebra 2 just killed me.
I only recently found your videos and I love them. I love your silly humour - a lot like my own. But this one stood out to me because I remember doing those endless, no-context, *timed* quizzes of a page of numbers and just told to go for it. Man I hated that. I never learned my times tables "properly" (ie. by rote). Instead I have learned over the years to calculate things organically, through understanding the actual meaning of what's going on. I have a good chunk of facts memorized, and from those I can get anything else I need.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the brief discussion you had here on math education philosophy, and how you visualize things like 4x6 vs 2+(4x6). Thank you very much. Your channel deserves to have so many more views.
One of these days the youtube algorithm will give this channel the love it deserves. The hundreds of thousands, if not millions of views per video. And when that day finally comes Comptometer prices will hit the moon as thousands of people are influenced to rush out and buy them, and this man will cash out on both ends as he gets that sweet youtube money while liquidating his 8 storage sheds full of mechanical adding machines.
O-riginal *voice echo* !
Still got it
Jokes aside, there were some programming languages (like VTL-2 which I do happen to know) where math precedence is strictly left-to-right and that's a clever design decision considering the original VTL-2 interpreter ROM took only 768... bytes.
5:08 Migracious is just a newfangled word for appreciative hitch hiker.
I stopped college after getting a masters in Math and came back home to work more on machining, traditional word/metal working, and with that working on clockwork items. I help tutor from time to time as a favor or come into the local school to help out (classes are around 15-20 tops, higher math maybe 12 if that). If it's the kid's first time seeing me, they moan when I explain we'll only be working through and exploring word problems. By the end everyone in the room is involved in taking the basic information provided and building up the big picture to find finally finish the problem.
I couldn't teach kids these days full time. I'd end up getting fired for throwing the PDF that acts as the nonexistent textbook out the nonexistent window for homework and create problems per section that require you to work through each step using everything you've learned. Even the word problems that exist in lessens are just the same soulless problems with blah blah wording surrounding the values to plug into the equations listed in the section overview. I know I can get better results, but I'd end up getting fired for not following curriculum. Then again, I'm also not a fan of focusing entirely on teaching calculation over process/understanding and focusing so much on testing when you have people that just don't do very well on tests but could easily work through the problems otherwise.
Loving this video
Please scan the Ad-o-Master Jr. Quiz Book into pdf file.
Just added it to the description! Thanks for waiting. It's here: cstaecker.fairfield.edu/~cstaecker/files/machines/filer.php?name=adomasterquizbook.pdf
Cool Hand Luke, such a tragic ending :(
“Almost certainly now deceased?” Too soon!
Hope she found what she was looking for too. 🤡
On a different note, can you help me with a greenfield math research problem? I want to create superexponential generating functions for sequences like 2^(2^n). Any ideas or known research? OEIS comes up empty for any GF of fast growing sequences. It appears I need a new type of series... 😭
Looks like WolframAlpha can't do it, so it is at least nontrivial. But I don't think I can help- that sort of combinatorics isn't my area. Good luck!
@@ChrisStaecker Thanks. By perchance, are there any colleagues or acquaintances you can connect me with? I'm an outsider to the math community. This problem has an important connection to the Mandelbrot Set and binary trees. It might make some real headway in combinatorics and chaos theory 🙂
@@ChurchOfThought I would suggest posting a question at mathoverflow.net, which is a very high-quality question and answer site for research-level mathematics. I have posted very obscure questions there a few times and I'm always impressed with the quality of the answers.
@@ChrisStaecker Thanks for the recommendation. I will give it a try. 👍
Ad-O-Master Jr sounds more like a kids tv channel advertisement program.
I always loved doing mindless problems like this. Unfortunately, it's a totally useless exercise.
it seems like my teachers hand these for % when i was real little
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Why didn't you call it 'jer' rather than 'junior' xD
you know me so well