On Sat, 4 May 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > And what is the formula you finally decided on?
> >
> > Ok, in the interest of sparking discussion and to fine tune the formula,
> > it's:
> >
> > Awp
> > ---
> > BI
> >
> > A = Area in square meters
> > w = Weight in kilograms
> > p = Power in Watts
> > B = Total storage bits (i.e. total K-bytes * 8 or total M-bytes * 1024 * 8)
>
> Do you mean that, or have you dropped a factor of 1024 from both
> examples. In other words, is B in bits or kilobits?
Ok, I meant total "bytes" and not "K-" or "M-" bytes.
> And all my machines, even ones I thought to be 'classic' seem have very
> low Zuse values :
Blame Hans.
> Am I missing something here, or are all the machines we're likely to own
> going to have rediculously low values?
Blame Hans.
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