19 Oct
1998
19 Oct
'98
3:44 a.m.
At 04:19 PM 10/18/98 PDT, Max Eskin wrote:
Has anyone read the book "Innumeracy"? It mostly deals with debunking
the concept of probability, but it is interesting in other respects,
too.
Yes, it's delightful. Paulos taught at the university I attended,
although I wasn't in his classes.
BTW, would you say 'kilobyte' is a misnomer?
THe number it
signifies isn't 10^3, it's 2^10. For a feeble attempt to get back on
topic: was kilobyte always accepted as 1024 bytes?
What drives me crazy are the marketroids who round-up twice
in order to inflate the capacity of hard drives.
At 07:49 PM 10/18/98 -0400, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Of course, real relays much smaller than a cubic inch
are readily available,
and a real computer of that density would have incredible cooling
problems.
And you'd need to emulate all the RAM and ROM that's on-chip on a CPU, too.
Do you think they count that when they count transistors?
- John