This Machine Needs More Turns to Complete a Cycle Than the Number

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This machine has 100 gears connected to each other with a slow rotation speed at one end. Each pair of gears has a deceleration from 1 to 10. This means that after 10 times a gear makes a full rotation, one gear behind the limb only once. There are 100 such successive gears. Therefore, the first device must create a googol, the last gear ring to make a full rotation.

If you do not know, Googol is a very large natural number, there are a hundred zeros followed by the number 1. A number larger than the number of atoms in the universe can be observed (estimated from 10 78 to 10 82 atoms).

1 Googol: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

De Bruin was inspired to build this special machine after his age (more than 31 years old) at 2 hours and 52 minutes, the afternoon of March 1, 2020 - counting in seconds - just about 1 billion. To celebrate this anniversary, De Bruin had such "crazy" idea.

De Bruin shared a video recording of the operation of this device for 1 hour.

To view this machine within 1 hour, you can visit the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApqfqiFTO4E&feature=youtu.be

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