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To: Alamo-Girl
The human brain, on the other hand, runs somewhere around 100 petaflops.

Citation?

41 posted on 01/27/2009 8:37:52 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
I pulled that out of my memory not off a website.

When Googling for the answer as to how fast the human brain works, you'll get a range of values. As it happens the first response agreed:

FLOPS MIPS Watts and the Human Brain

Furthermore, there is no real consensus regarding the computational power of the human brain. Some estimates suggest that it is capable of 1017 FLOPS, or a 100 petaflops.


50 posted on 01/27/2009 9:08:01 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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