[Gllug] Re: Super Computing Time

[Gordon Joly]

At 10:34 +0100 2001-10-07, dennis furey wrote:
>A clock frequency of 560 GHz implies a period of 1.78E-12 seconds,
>during which a clock signal propagating at the speed of light (2.998E8
>m/s) covers about half a millimeter. Anyone who can squeeze all that
>gear into a space smaller than that might be a pretty good physicist
>already. ;)

Indeed.

And what is the speed of thought?

Gordo


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