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Article #2062Re: CPUs at 30 Ghz in the year 2005
From: Ed Seedhouse
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:23
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:23
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ranier venner (venner@streubel.com) wrote: >On 19 May 2001 05:42:37 GMT, Robert Hyatt <hyatt@crafty.cis.uab.edu> >wrote: >>If you think we are going to search 10^50 positions, think again. >>If you had one trillion years, searching one position per nanosecond, >>you could search 10^23 positions total. You are a +long+ way from >>that final solution. In fact, you have not really started. >exactly robert. compare 10^50 with the age of the universe which is >10^18 seconds. Some of this revolves around people's inability to understand really large numbers intuitively. Using scientific notation tends to exacerbate this. For instance if you say we can evaluate 10^48 out of 10^50 positions this intuitively looks like you are nearly there, when in fact you are only 1% of the way there and if it took 100 years to do that you've still got 10,000 years to go! Obviously when discussing such large numbers scientific notation is the only practical method, but it still makes 10^50 look like half of 10^100 at a cursory inspection, where as 10^100 is actually 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than 10^100. Even just writing all those zeros once took about 5 minutes to get all the commas right! Ed Seedhouse "Seedhouse" on ICC CFC Rating: 2050
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