----- Original Message ----- > From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> > To: Andrew Faraday <jbtur...@hotmail.com> > Cc: pd-list@iem.at > Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 11:40 AM > Subject: Re: [PD] [OT] Computers just for maths? WAS Music Notation in linux > > Le 2012-03-05 à 08:22:00, Andrew Faraday a écrit : > >> It's also pretty fair to say that all computers do IS maths. > > I know all of that and understand those principles from beginning to end. But > I'm not talking about that. I mean the users' activities.
Users are silly. They want things like presets, beautiful interfaces, and an undo history that is too big to fit on a solar calculator. You'd do well to steer clear of them and focus on maths exercises. -Jonathan > >> They perform binary operations at a rate of thousands per second. > > Wow, that really sounds exciting ! > > For a 1936 Zuse-1 computer with 22-bit ints and 33-bit floats running at 1 > Hz, > there were already hundreds of them. Nowadays, it's impossible to get a damn > phone that doesn't already do several billions per second. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu BOUCHARD ----- téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 ----- Montréal, QC > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
