[PD] [OT] Computers just for maths? WAS Music Notation in linux

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2012-03-05 à 08:22:00, Andrew Faraday a écrit :

> It's also pretty fair to say that all computers do IS maths.

I know all of that and understand those principles from beginning to end. 
But I'm not talking about that. I mean the users' activities.

> They perform binary operations at a rate of thousands per second.

Wow, that really sounds exciting !

For a 1936 Zuse-1 computer with 22-bit ints and 33-bit floats running at 1 
Hz, there were already hundreds of them. Nowadays, it's impossible to get 
a damn phone that doesn't already do several billions per second.

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