Ernst W. Mayer wrote:
> I seem to recall a long-buried thread on this list about how long
> various processors take to cook a Turkey
The thread was about a (ahem) modest proposal for updating the standard
unit of GIMPS effort from the current CPU-model-dependent "P90-year" to
a unit that would be independent of CPU models and thus not subject to
obsolescence by advances in chip manufacture. Inspired by the
information-theoretic idea of measuring information in terms of entropy,
whose units are of energy, I propose that we use the energy used to
raise a standard mass (10-kg turkey) to a standard temperature
("done" according to _The Joy of Cooking_) by a GHz-class CPU
adapted for use of its waste radiation in a microwave oven.
>...(screams of "Nooo! Not that again!" in the background :)
Of course not. It's much too early for turkey season, silly!
Richard ("Not a turkey either, but I know one when I see one") Woods
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