Y'all know moores law, "Computational Power roughly doubles every 18 months +/-", so I was wondering how that would apply in the 34th centruy, ie what sort of power would my commanders PC have relative to todays PC to see what he'd be able to do with such computers. So I put it into a spreadsheet, column A1 = 2017 A2 = 2020, fill that pattern down to about row 435, Column B1 = 1, B2 = B1*4, fill that down to B432.
Well ahem, it broke excel.... (4.8048 x 10 ^ 257)
48048 with 263 zeros on the end of it.
480,480,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Like I said - it broke excel, obviously a recurring multiply by four is not going to end in that many zeroes, it would most likely have four or six at the end and seemingly random integers throughout. And remembering that the seed "1" was a unit of current PC power, so obviously we are extremely unlikely to ever end up with that mcuh computational power, such things defy the landauer limit and many other laws of pyhsics.
So assuming that the computer core in your spaceship dates back to the time of the first builds of your ships class or its oldest competitors, it is a couple of hundred years old at the time you are flying it in 3303, its still many many orders of magnitude better than all the computation available to humanity today... What "Apps" would you like to be able to run on it?
Well ahem, it broke excel.... (4.8048 x 10 ^ 257)
48048 with 263 zeros on the end of it.
480,480,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Like I said - it broke excel, obviously a recurring multiply by four is not going to end in that many zeroes, it would most likely have four or six at the end and seemingly random integers throughout. And remembering that the seed "1" was a unit of current PC power, so obviously we are extremely unlikely to ever end up with that mcuh computational power, such things defy the landauer limit and many other laws of pyhsics.
So assuming that the computer core in your spaceship dates back to the time of the first builds of your ships class or its oldest competitors, it is a couple of hundred years old at the time you are flying it in 3303, its still many many orders of magnitude better than all the computation available to humanity today... What "Apps" would you like to be able to run on it?
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