The desktop computer you're using right now to read this message likely has sufficient power to perform calculations faster than all 6.7 billion human beings on earth combined. Computers are ruthlessly fast at number crunching.
Brains are great at storing information and recalling facts, making connections between distantly related things, and recognizing patterns. But for mathematical computation, brains are no match for transistors. The i/o interface is terrible. Most people require about a second to recognize and compute the product of two single digit numbers.
I'm using an old slow PC, and a BASIC compiler (QB45). The short piece of code I wrote to select two single digit numbers at random, compute their product, and index a counter required 32 seconds to complete a million iterations. Your average human being could do about 32 in the same amount of time. Had I written this program in assembly language, I could reduce the time by a factor of 10, even on this old slow machine. I need to run this from my home PC, just for kicks, to compare results.
Update: Since I last wrote this answer four years ago (Dec 2008) I tried it again using a newer PC. The new program uses a function to select and truncate two two digit integers and compute their product inside nested machine loops. Interactively the program executed a million times in just under two seconds. Compiled, it still took 1.6 seconds, shaving off 8/10ths of a second. Meanwhile, the human population surpassed the seven billion mark, and individual humans still cannot compute any faster than before.
the answers * Frontal Lobe - portion of the brain that controls body movement *Neurons - brain cells that control thoughts, calculations, and memory *Peripheral nervous system - releases hormones and controls emotions
The brain only have 3 different membranes.
No, but they do have many junctures.
No. A brain cell is just one cell in a many-celled organism.
the human brain is 10cm long and 5cm in height. I hope that helps
Think of it this way, our brain can do like 1-3 calculations per second, a super computer can do trillions and billions of calculations per second.
The human brain is the most complex thing in existence (so far). It can make 100 trillion calculations per second. The human brain is the most complex thing in existence (so far). It can make 100 trillion calculations per second.
A PET scan would be most useful for detecting brain areas that are most active as a person performs mathematical calculations.
yes the processor does all the calculations and the RAM helps to push it through
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A brain - and it is not a simple device. It was assisted by an abacus, but without a brain an abacus would not have been much use!
It is because, it is used for research for thousands of topics and is used for creating graphs and simulations which aid in the understanding of science. Edit by DaftVirgin: Not only that, the computer has superior speed. It can make thousands of calculations in a matter of seconds while the human brain can't even make two calculations at the same time. This gives a huge advantage because some calculations would have taken years or decades to calculate with the brain.
Of course. They work together all the time. It is not that left brain takes care of language and the right brain takes care of numerical calculations. Both hemispheres are bridged by something called as the corpus collosum.
No, databases can only do a selective amount of calculations, but you can get the exact same responses but many more detailed calculations by using Spreadsheet software, I recommend using Microsoft Excel.
don're rely too much on technology such as your cellphone to do simple calculations. try to use brain, not so much electronics
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exactly through my calculations a lot