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From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca To: Andrew Faraday jbturgid@hotmail.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 11:40 AM 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.
Users are silly. They want things like presets, beautiful interfaces, and an undo history that is too big to fit on a solar calculator. You'd do well to steer clear of them and focus on maths exercises.
-Jonathan
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.
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