Re: rant

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 04:43:13 -0000 (UTC), "Mark P. Nelson"
<markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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Altered Beast <j63480576@gmail.com> wrote in news:lhuuhvFlce3U2@mid.individual.net:
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What units are computing power measured in?

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Never mind the mathetical operations, I always like to measure this in monk-hours as a
matter of practical productivity. Considering how much text a computer could output, via a
decent printer, in one second, how long would it have taken one monk, using a quill and
parchment, to produce the same number of verses, with or without illuminated caps?
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But, if you insist on FLOPS, consider a monk with a quill and parchment. How long will it
take him to solve a given quadratic equation versus the computer's performance?
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It depends on the monk, I suppose. Are we running these maths on a
'Thomas Aquinas' processor or a 'Bob-the-Inebriated-Dribbler' core?
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;-)

Or Rainman the Monk.

A savant will outperform a computer every time in their field.

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