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

[Andrew Faraday]

> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:40:43 -0500
> From: matju at artengine.ca
> To: jbturgid at hotmail.com
> CC: lorenzofsutton at gmail.com; pd-list at iem.at
> 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 :
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> > 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.

It's fairly true, that while it's achieved with maths, it's rarely the purpose for which they're used.

> 
> > 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.

I'm wondering if there's a benefit to mobile computers (with phone apps) which do less than that a second.
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