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noobermin on Aug 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: 200 terabyte proof demonstrates the potential of b...

What a mathematician[0] thing to say. This sounds like an isomorphism of "it's solvable in principle."

[0] Speaking as a scientist.

SilasX on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

200 TB is not a lot, though, for a single pass validity check today. A core does roughly a billion operations per second and we have tools now for easy provisioning of computation power and distribution of work.

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