It may be supposed to be lighthearted; that's no excuse.

Each person in the world with a handheld calculator would still take decades to do the same calculations Blue Gene is now able to do every second.Rather ambiguous, that. But I can understand how an innumerate "journalist" might think it would take "decades" for a single person to perform 40-50,000 floating-point additions or multiplications with ( Read more... )