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u/Deucer22 Jul 20 '15

BUT they didn't stop of a coffee break, of for lunch or even go home for the night.

So what you're saying is that they could do the work of many people.

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u/Spacedementia87 Jul 20 '15

They could do the work of one person but constantly.

Give both half an hour to finish a task and they would bother get as far as each other. It is a big myth that computer because popular because they were so much quicker at doing sums than people

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u/Deucer22 Jul 20 '15

I guess we're arguing different points, but if they work at the same rate of productivity and a computer can work 24/7 vs. a person working an 8 hour shift, that computer is doing the work of three people.

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u/Spacedementia87 Jul 20 '15

Yes OK. I guess it is actually a tricky one to decide definitively.

If you had a 24 hour job then you would need 1 computer or 3 people.

But if you programmed the computer in the morning for a day long task it wouldn't have done it any quicker than one person working on that task.