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<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:40:43 -0500<br>> From: matju@artengine.ca<br>> To: jbturgid@hotmail.com<br>> CC: lorenzofsutton@gmail.com; pd-list@iem.at<br>> Subject: RE: [PD] [OT] Computers just for maths? WAS Music Notation in linux<br>> <br>> Le 2012-03-05 à 08:22:00, Andrew Faraday a écrit :<br>> <br>> > It's also pretty fair to say that all computers do IS maths.<br>> <br>> I know all of that and understand those principles from beginning to end. <br>> But I'm not talking about that. I mean the users' activities.<br><br>It's fairly true, that while it's achieved with maths, it's rarely the purpose for which they're used.<br><br>> <br>> > They perform binary operations at a rate of thousands per second.<br>> <br>> Wow, that really sounds exciting !<br>> <br>> For a 1936 Zuse-1 computer with 22-bit ints and 33-bit floats running at 1 <br>> Hz, there were already hundreds of them. Nowadays, it's impossible to get <br>> a damn phone that doesn't already do several billions per second.<br><br>I'm wondering if there's a benefit to mobile computers (with phone apps) which do less than that a second.<br>> <br>> ______________________________________________________________________<br>> | Mathieu BOUCHARD ----- téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 ----- Montréal, QC<br></div> </div></body>
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