big numbers! congrats!

i don't get it. you start with one addition problem, and it turns it into another addition problem. either way you're still left with an addition problem which, for big numbers, you'd probably need a calculator. still cool to watch tho. i admire his creativity.

Say you're using a calculator and you add 26 + 26. It says 52. Is that leaving you with an addition problem where you have to figure out what's 50+2? In a way, yes - but you don't think of it that way because you're used to dealing with decimal and you see 52 as one number. If you were used to dealing with binary, you'd recognize 110100 (52) as one number as well, and then the calculation this machine does might make more sense.

The addition he does is just converting the number from and then back to decimal.

i don't get it. you start with one addition problem, and it turns it into another addition problem. either way you're still left with an addition problem which, for big numbers, you'd probably need a calculator. still cool to watch tho. i admire his creativity.

Thing is all these corporate bungles won't matter much when the George Foreman grill actually does end up selling in big numbers. They probably won't hit the vast sales figures of the previous Playstations but there are too many backers of the thing for it to fail.