Comments by "" (@Gameboygenius) on "The Rapid Collapse of the Swedish Mechanical Calculator Industry" video.

  1. Like many words in European languages it does come from Latin, but it means something different. Facit in Latin is a form of the word facere, meaning to do. The Swedish word facit came through Dutch and ended up meaning answer in the sense of an answer sheet to a test or similar.
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  2. We just have to learn to produce large scale synthetic monocrystalline diamond, and silicon will go the way of the dodo.
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