Micro #12 12 января 1999

Useful Information - did you know that ...

         Did you know that ...



Capacity of human memory varies
wide predelah.Srednyaya value, which
often used, is in the range 10 ^ 12/10 ^ 15 bit.Mnogo it or 
not? For example, information contained in the entire Great

Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE), is about
4x10 ^ 8 bits, which is a negligible part of
This velichiny.Vo all book fund of the Russian State Library in 
Moscow 10 ^ 13 bits, that is, it could would fit in the memory 
of one man. 

Many believe that the eyes of the reader smoothly
glide along the lines teksta.Na actual
business hour continuous reading of the average
57 minutes reading the eyes are in complete rest and only 3 
minutes to go movement of pupils.


One of the founders of information theory, mathematician 
William Weaver pointed out that the methods used for military 
purposes and for disclosure Cipher negotiation opponent can be 
used for machine translation yazykov.Tak, solving these 
problems, in 1949 in the U.S. built the first 
machine-translators from Russian into English.


Klichestvo Ktorov books can be read at
all my zhyzni not exceed 8.6 tysyach.I
it's pretty high norma.Ee can be done by reading the daily 
about 50 stranits.Za time "reading" part of life to be issued

more than 20 million knig.Znachit, on average you can
read only one of 10000 knig.Vyhodv increase "packages" of 
information-is only through the use of computers!


The first electronic computer
ENIAC was designed to solve problems
ballistiki.Ona consisted of 18 thousand and 1,5 thousand radio 
tubes relays per second producing 300 multiplications or 5000 
multidigit additions chisel.Ona was very large: weight was 30 
tons, for placing it needed room length

30m.Potreblyala it 150 kW of electric energy.
In addition, much time was spent
for the recruitment and training programs in the patch board.

In total software sales in Japan, game programs occupy
the largest share: 30%. In second place (20%) training 
programs, then go serves the (17%), business (13%) and 
scientific programmy10%. Word processing program, although are 
serving are highlighted in a special Count - their sale is 
large enough: 6%. The remaining market share is indicated by 
the word "Other."



                         BASIC lived

                         BASIC is still alive,

                         BASIC is

                                   live ...
Noting the 30 th anniversary of the establishment of language
BASIC, firm, Microsoft said that in her
estimates, is now programmed in BASIC
about 6 million people - three times more
than in all languages, together with vzyatyh.Nachinaya
In 1985 the company has sold more than 1 million
copies of the package Kvikbeysik, and fall in popularity of 
this language is not expected. 

Chip - a chip (LSI) without contact
basis mikroprotsessorov.Chipy cut from
ultra-pure single crystal silicon wafer after processing it by 
the integral technology.

Biochip - a subminiature device
processing and storage of information based on
electronic processes in bio-
molecular systems or systems that combine crystalline and 
Biomolecular struktury.Kak commonly used in spec.

neyrokompyuterah.Dlya them developed
circuits containing up to 1000mln mikroprotsessorov.Napomnim 
that the human brain contains 10 billion neurons and 1000 times 
greater number of synapses.