> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:40:43 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > 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. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu BOUCHARD ----- téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 ----- Montréal, QC
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