On 12 June 2014 03:08, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > We know *much more* about generating energy from E = mc^2 than we know > about optimally flipping bits: our nuclear reactions convert something of > the order of 0.1% of their fuel to energy, that is, to get a certain > yield, we "merely" have to supply about a thousand times more fuel than > we theoretically needed. That's about a thousand times better than the > efficiency of current bit-flipping technology.
You're comparing a one-use device to a trillion-use device. I think that's unfair. Tell me when you find an atom splitter that works a trillion times. Then tell me what it's efficiency is, because it's not nearly 0.1%. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list