Is there such thing?
This is quite theoretical here...
But imagine a processor that gave out no heat, no sound, no light etc.
The processor could do super-complex mathematical equations, with 10000 times the processing power of the current day supercomputers.
Would the energy input always equal the energy output, even though the machine is performing strenuous equations?
Everything that I know about physics (conservation of energy & mass etc) is telling me that no power is needed to do maths... so I don't think there is.
I just find it interesting that energy is not needed to do computations.
This is quite theoretical here...
But imagine a processor that gave out no heat, no sound, no light etc.
The processor could do super-complex mathematical equations, with 10000 times the processing power of the current day supercomputers.
Would the energy input always equal the energy output, even though the machine is performing strenuous equations?
Everything that I know about physics (conservation of energy & mass etc) is telling me that no power is needed to do maths... so I don't think there is.
I just find it interesting that energy is not needed to do computations.