Spalls Hurgenson <
spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 04:43:13 -0000 (UTC), "Mark P. Nelson" ><markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Altered Beast <j63480576@gmail.com> wrote in news:lhuuhvFlce3U2@mid.individual.net:
What units are computing power measured in?
Never mind the mathetical operations, I always like to measure this in monk-hours as a
matter of practical productivity. Considering how much text a computer could output, via a
decent printer, in one second, how long would it have taken one monk, using a quill and
parchment, to produce the same number of verses, with or without illuminated caps?
But, if you insist on FLOPS, consider a monk with a quill and parchment. How long will it
take him to solve a given quadratic equation versus the computer's performance?
It depends on the monk, I suppose. Are we running these maths on a
'Thomas Aquinas' processor or a 'Bob-the-Inebriated-Dribbler' core?
;-)
Or Rainman the Monk.
A savant will outperform a computer every time in their field.
Xocyll
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