It was one of the most amazing visions of the future ever made. In 1965 Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, proposed a law governing the future of computing. He originally proposed that the number of components on a chip would double every year. Later he revised that law to doubling every two years. You can take a look at the real data of CPU development over the past 40 years and see if it in fact has followed Moore’s law and whether it can continue. In the process you will be looking at very large numbers and the effects of exponential growth on something we now live with all the time.
Tag: powers of 2
Probability: Flipping a Coin
That probability is multiplicative is not an easy concept for many of us. Using the spreadsheet with our ability to make tables and to cut and paste can make this important concept much more transparent. We look forward to your thoughts about what we have done.
The Chessboard
We take that great old problem of the inventor of chess and the ruler of India and use it to see how powers of 2 grow in size. We start out with a chessboard and look at doubling each successive number. Then we seek a method of representing this doubling in a formula and introduce exponents and powers of 2. We ask you what kind of rule would you suggest that would keep your head and please the ruler?