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

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] [OT] Computers just for maths? WAS Music Notation in linux
> 
> 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.

Users are silly.  They want things like presets, beautiful interfaces, and an undo 
history that is too big to fit on a solar calculator.  You'd do well to steer clear of 
them and focus on maths exercises.

-Jonathan

> 
>>  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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