Back in the days of Octal notation, there were computers with a 12 bit word size that used sixbit characters (early DEC PDP-8, PDP-5, early CDC machines). 'Byte' was sometimes used for 6- and 9-bit halfword values.

In 1965, Clarke, Asimov, and other science writers were at NASA watching the first images appear. "Craters. Duh, it's right next to the asteroid belt, of course it has craters. Not that any of us thought of it beforehand..."

"My eyes are dim, I cannot see. I have not brought my E6-B" -- submarines used a similar "Is/Was" circular slide rule for torpedoes. https://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Is-Was

On my Android/Chrome, the input boxes only accept digits 0-9, not decimal points. ???

I have changed to: inputmode="decimal"

Thanks.. I will check

You might get more traction on reddit's r/Movies, r/History_Maps, r/AskHistory, /r/HistoryTeachers, and /r/TeachingResources https://reddit.com/r/History_Maps/

Thank you! I'm fixing some early feedback about the UX and I'll do just that!

> surely people will be just as responsible with AI

That's exactly what worries us.

commenters analyzing wear marks and component selection conclude the owner was very meticulous and it would not penetrate body armor

They had a vertical 'Zenith Telescope' that looked at the same star from two locations. They measured how far from vertical it shifted in the magnified field of view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsden_surveying_instruments#... Similar instrumends measured the wobble of the Earth's axis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Latitude_Service

> We built a hidden micro-bearing system inside a 2mm ring

We don't care.

Stop spamming.

That would require a quorum of the 18 institutions comprising the globally distributed League Of Entropy. https://docs.drand.love/docs/timelock-encryption/

yes, you r right