Zuse would be great!
And, if we reduce the formula to SI units, we get:
(IPS are Instructions Per Second, right?)
m^4 * kg^2
1 Zuse = 1 ------------
s^2
which is sufficiently strange....
ms
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 13:16, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Hans Franke wrote:
>
> > Well, Zuse is aa Unit for
> >
> > m^2 * kg * w
> > ------------
> > bit * IPS
> >
> > So a for example the Zuse 1 (100% mechanical,
> > binary floating point) ends up somewhere near
> > 55 Z, while a modern PC (Lets take the dual
> > PIII 700 MHz with 384 MB I'm using right now)
> > gets around 4,8*10^-14 Z or 48 fZ (Femtozuse)
> >
> > I think this gives a good evaluation of the
> > geek value.
>
> I like it, but why don't we add a coefficient to make the Zuse 1 come out
> with a Zuse rating of 1?
>
> Multiplying it by .0181818... (1/55) would do the trick (lamely :)
>
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