5 Mar
2012
5 Mar
'12
5:40 p.m.
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.
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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