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The substrate of computation is fairly generalizable. But then, computation itself is a fairly generalizable idea.

How many planetary gears do you need to implement a general purpose computer? Well, since state is not held in little capacitive memory banks, you need as many gear (sets) as you have variable storage, since each state is independent of another. The movement of the gears does the computation. Constraints for your cwould be set beforehand by levers at the ring gears. A primary "drive" gear is the "trunk" of the computation from which all others branch.