Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:40:43 -0500 From: matju@artengine.ca To: jbturgid@hotmail.com CC: lorenzofsutton@gmail.com; pd-list@iem.at Subject: RE: [PD] [OT] Computers just for maths? WAS Music Notation in linux
Le 2012-03-05 à 08:22:00, Andrew Faraday a écrit :
It's also pretty fair to say that all computers do IS maths.
I know all of that and understand those principles from beginning to end. But I'm not talking about that. I mean the users' activities.
It's fairly true, that while it's achieved with maths, it's rarely the purpose for which they're used.
They perform binary operations at a rate of thousands per second.
Wow, that really sounds exciting !
For a 1936 Zuse-1 computer with 22-bit ints and 33-bit floats running at 1 Hz, there were already hundreds of them. Nowadays, it's impossible to get a damn phone that doesn't already do several billions per second.
I'm wondering if there's a benefit to mobile computers (with phone apps) which do less than that a second.
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