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To: Scumbria who wrote (117744)	11/14/2000 6:41:09 PM
From: deibutfeif	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, re:...could count to 5,000,000 in 1/200th... Ah, but how could you be sure it didn't skip a few numbers on the way? And, just think how much faster a 1.6 GHz processor would (edit: will) be. ;^) ~dbf

To: Scumbria who wrote (117744)	11/14/2000 6:46:09 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, <A 1.0GHz processor could count to 5,000,000 in 1/200th of a second.> Yes, but remember FDIV? What do you think will happen to elections which are decided by margins smaller than the round-off error of the Approxium? Yeah, I know, this question is pretty silly (who the heck uses floating-point to count votes?), but it's just one out of an infinite number of questions that cast doubt on the viability of electronic voting. Tenchusatsu