I believe you're correct, but would it not be extremely hard to measure
that weight?
On Oct 23, 2012 10:29 AM, "Robin Wood" <[email protected]> wrote:

> No idea why I woke up thinking about this but thought I'd share it with
> you all.
>
> A 1 is stored in RAM by charging a capacitor, so the capacitor is full
> of electrons. That means if you set every bit in a 1G machine to 1
> then it has to weigh more than if you set them all to 0. That would
> mean that at any point your computer is getting heavier or lighter
> depending on what it is working on.
>
> Is that right or am I talking rubbish?
>
> Robin
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