From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 22:06:33 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> So the ultimate laptop, one that has converted all its mass-energy to
> radiation, would be able to carry out a mind-boggling 1051 operations per
> second. Compare this with today's standard laptop, which has a clock speed of
> about 500 megahertz and carries out up to 1000 parallel operations each
> cycle--a total of about 1012 operations per second. The ultimate laptop would
> be 1039 times faster.
Umm...eh? The numbers don't come out at all.
500 megahertz = 500,000,000 cycles per second
500 megahertz * 1000 ops per cycle = 500,000,000,000 ops per second
1051 O.P.S. / 500,000,000,000 O.P.S = a number much less than 1039
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