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Re: septillion operations per second
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Thu Jun 21 17:18:43 2001
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:48:50 -0500
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: "20 Jun 2001 23:35:35 +0300."
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To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Message-id: <200106211948.f5LJmo307224@gungnir.fnal.gov>
> > ... and scientists work in secret to develop computers capable of
> > performing more than one septillion
> > (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) operations every second.
If any single component is to change state this many times per
second, it has to be no bigger than (3*10^8 m/s) * (10^-24 s) =
3*10^-16 m, or around the size of a proton.
If you have an enormous collection of larger, slower parts, less
stringent limits apply.
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