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Twilight of the sundials: Archaic timepiece dying out and millennials are to blame, reckons boffin

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Re: I'll Bite.... Yes, I know he was trolling

Have to admit, I thought Euclid was the ancient greek bloke that worked out the diameter of the earth with nothing more than a stick and a hole in the ground. (Turned out to be Eratosthenes - thanks wikipedia)

Anyway, I am always impressed by ancient boffins working out stuff like that.

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