You might want to look up the randomized computational complexity class BPP. There is 2/3 - 1/3 split on when it answers correctly. I believe that it answers correctly 2/3 of the time, and the other 1/3 time is indeterminate. All you need to do is run it a few times (these algorithms are very fast, and average the results. The summation of these attempts very quickly approach many nines of accuracy after a relatively short number of attempts.
In fact, before the (relatively) recent discovery that primality testing is in P (the discovery of a deterministic poly-time algorithm for testing whether a number is prime), the best algorithm was in BPP, and in fact, that is the algorithm that is mostly used today because of it's speed.
Remember, Windows NT wasn't even developed on x86 (it was done on MIPS and Intel i860 and backported to x86). In fact, up until Windows 2000, NT had support for x86, Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC right out of the box. NT was originally designed to be very portable and its kernel design facilitates this. It's just a matter of will.
It's not the CRT that makes the noise, it's the flyback transformer, which is being driven by the horizontal sweep oscillator, which is oscillating 15750Hz.
Flybacks are fun. Especially when you accidentally zap yourself with one!
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You might want to look up the randomized computational complexity class BPP. There is 2/3 - 1/3 split on when it answers correctly. I believe that it answers correctly 2/3 of the time, and the other 1/3 time is indeterminate. All you need to do is run it a few times (these algorithms are very fast, and average the results. The summation of these attempts very quickly approach many nines of accuracy after a relatively short number of attempts. In fact, before the (relatively) recent discovery that primality testing is in P (the discovery of a deterministic poly-time algorithm for testing whether a number is prime), the best algorithm was in BPP, and in fact, that is the algorithm that is mostly used today because of it's speed.
Remember, Windows NT wasn't even developed on x86 (it was done on MIPS and Intel i860 and backported to x86). In fact, up until Windows 2000, NT had support for x86, Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC right out of the box. NT was originally designed to be very portable and its kernel design facilitates this. It's just a matter of will.
It's not the CRT that makes the noise, it's the flyback transformer, which is being driven by the horizontal sweep oscillator, which is oscillating 15750Hz.
Flybacks are fun. Especially when you accidentally zap yourself with one!