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Altered Beast <j63480576@gmail.com> wrote in news:lhuuhvFlce3U2@mid.individual.net:

> 
> What units are computing power measured in?

Never mind the mathetical operations, I always like to measure this in monk-hours as a 
matter of practical productivity. Considering how much text a computer could output, via a 
decent printer, in one second, how long would it have taken one monk, using a quill and 
parchment, to produce the same number of verses, with or without illuminated caps?

But, if you insist on FLOPS, consider a monk with a quill and parchment. How long will it 
take him to solve a given quadratic equation versus the computer's performance?

;)�~