That’s more than your mom.
How many are used to run Java?
There is a point on the scale at which a quantity of something stops making sense. Some sextillion transistors, billions of Java devices, and so on. I always found such statistics weird, as it is just too hard to imagine the numbers. It is far easier to rationalise logically.
The basis for digital computing, that has been aggressively miniaturised and multiplied for decades? Yes, I believe those would be absurdly abundant.
A programming language designed to be platform independent, around the dawn of portable computing? I am sure it must have found its way to a lot of devices.
That’s what they tell you to hide the bees.
Sextillion: 10³⁶
It’s actually 1021, short scale sextillions.
Oh. Thanks for the hint.
Wikipedia says: two different naming systems for integers powers of ten but the same name. TIL.
Yeah it can be confusing, esp when you speak two languages that use the opposite scale
Hey, I only have one mom!
Invented December 23, 1947, therefore, on average, we made a danged lot of them every year since.
Would love to see a graph, the annual amount probably increased exponentially.
The archaeologists 1000 years from now are going to be so confused.
Does the transistors in CPUs and GPUs count?
I was about to say, between my PC, my laptop, my cell phone, my NAS, my printer, my wireless router, my ethernet switch, and all the SBCs and microcontrollers in my electronics kit, not to mention peripherals and accessories, I’m probably sitting within 2 meters of a trillion transistors.
Of course, why would they not?
Well they sure doesn’t look like the image :-)
But yes ofc they do.
Imagine we made 13 sextillion of those transistors… That’s more than there are grains of sand on earth
The only other thing I’ve heard of on the scale of sextillion is mole, a unit of measure for 602 sextillion particles in a quantity based on the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon 12
Stupid sexy transistors
sexty
Thank you.
Sexty was just right there!!
