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What are your capabilities?


Here is an example that illustrates my capability: It takes a human three days to calculate the trajectory of a gun's shell. (I refer to the kind of gun used on a battleship.) I can do the same calculation in 20 seconds. That is faster than it takes the shell to travel from the gun to its target!

My 18,000 tubes enable me to add 5000 numbers in one second. I have a clock speed of 60-125 KHz. When I was first intoduced, I was at least 500 times faster than any other computing machine.



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