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Subject: Re: IBM's latest monster

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 18:51:17 12/07/99

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On December 06, 1999 at 13:55:54, James T. Walker wrote:

>On December 06, 1999 at 13:00:56, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>>A thousand fold increase would be
>>>what, an additional 6 ply search in the same time?
>>
>>Lets do some math. 40^x = 1000,  40log 1000 = x, x = 10log1000 / 10log40, x =
>>3/10log40 = 3 / 1.5 = 1.9
>>
>>I think it gets you "1.9 ply" deeper if you do brute force. Now we need someone
>>to tell us how much that is if you add HT and other modern wunder drugs.
>>But I would be very very suprised if you'd reach +6ply.
>
>
>It is also reported to be 2 million times faster than todays PC's!
>Jim Walker

sounds a bit hard to believe unless it eats also a 2 million times higher
power bill.



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