Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> 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
1051 = 10^51
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/home.html
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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