Anonymous wrote:
Nicko van Someren writes:
The estimate
of the cost of construction I gave was some hundreds of
millions of dollars, a figure by which I still stand.
But what does that mean, to specify (and stand by) the cost of
construction of a factoring machine, without saying anything
Nicko writes:
[...] the Bernstein proposal [...] (among other things) it details
the conceptual design of a machine for computing kernels in a large,
sparse matrix. The design talks of the number of functional units
and the nature of the communication between these units. What I set
out to
