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Introducing Probability into Chip Design
prostoalex writes "The August issue of Intel Developer Update has an interview with Shekhar Borkar, Intel Fellow and Director of Circuit Research at Intel Corp. talking about the future of microprocessor design and what goes on inside Intel Labs. Borkar tells why we need even faster processors and how probability will make its way into future chip designs - "It's like the shift from Newtonian mechanics to quantum mechanics. We will shift from the deterministic designs of today to probabilistic and statistical designs of the future.""
How do we know 1/3 = .3333 infinite????? Your proof is flawed!!
Instead just take the infinite sum of
Sum[ 9 / (10^i), {i, 1, Infinity}]
it's been many-a-moon since i took my foundations of math class, and i made a point of forgetting this particular section as soon as i possibly could before it hurt my head. of course, i've been using a computer for so long that i'm half convinced that the reals are a hoax invented by physicists to make their sums easier ;-)