On 7/17/07, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I was reading an article on the ENIAC, that monster could add 100,000 10 digits numbers in 1 second. At the time it was impressive in 1946 of course.
ps : the speed of the ENIAC was something like 0.001 Mhz...
Don't you mean .000001 Ghz? Or .000000001 Thz? The whole point of having the prefixes is to avoid the need for huge numbers of zeros before or after the decimal point. Second, the statements "The ENIAC was something like 1Khz" and The Eniac could add 100,000 10-digit numbers in one second" seem unlikely to me to both be true. Did the Eniac really have a sufficiently parallel architecture that it could add 100 10-digit numbers in a single clock cycle? Andy.Latto@pobox.com