The gigantic computer took up a whole wall, dwarfing the two mathematicians standing before it.
After much flashing and humming a sliver of paper emerged from the vitals of the machine.
One mathematician, after studying it gravely, turned to the other and said with awe, “Do you realise that it would take four hundred ordinary mathematicians a hundred years of calculations to make a mistake this big?”
Computer Problem
The gigantic computer took up a whole wall, dwarfing the two mathematicians standing before it.
After much flashing and humming a sliver of paper emerged from the vitals of the machine.
One mathematician, after studying it gravely, turned to the other and said with awe, “Do you realise that it would take four hundred ordinary mathematicians a hundred years of calculations to make a mistake this big?”