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- From: nsmith@tms390.micro.ti.com (Neal Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Internet supercomputer (WAS: Re: Elements ending in H)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150442.4582@tms390.micro.ti.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:04:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: tms390.1992Nov17.150442.4582
- References: <1992Nov14.214052.1264@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov14.191019.20502@yang.earlham.edu> <1992Nov16.170324.10896@aurora.com> <1992Nov17.065015.17781@Princeton.EDU>
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- jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein) writes:
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- >In response to my elements-ending-in-h-challenge, isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak) writes:
- >>There are lots of elements which end with 'h': hydrogen, helium,
- >>holmium, hafnium, hahnium.
- >>
- >>You never said which end.
- >Ouch! Good point! Once again, the collective wit of the Internet proves
- >my superior. I'm really going to have to start making my challenges
- >harder.
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- >You know, it occured to me that, taken as a whole, the Internet is
- >the most powerful supercomputer in the world, if you include in the system the minds
- >linked by it.
-
- Unfortunately, it's also correspondingly slow... :v)
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- From Neal Smith (nsmith@tms390.micro.ti.com)
- The expressions opined here are mine.
- If you want TI's opinion, you'll have to ask marketing...
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