The way it was...
This is Harold M. Edwards on the quest for the zeros of Riemann's zeta function:
No doubt this program of computation would have been carried further if World War II had not intervened. By the time the war was over, the computer revolution was well under way and automatic electronic digital computers were rapidly being developed. These new tools ( Read more... )
No doubt this program of computation would have been carried further if World War II had not intervened. By the time the war was over, the computer revolution was well under way and automatic electronic digital computers were rapidly being developed. These new tools ( Read more... )
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In our tests, calculations using the PowerPC processor's single-precision floating-point multiply-add instruction were 20,000 times faster. This means that if we had started a lengthy floating-point calculation in 1984 at the release of the Macintosh, and that calculation were still being worked on by the computer, it would take a Power Macintosh starting now just four hours to catch up.
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