• BraveLittleToaster
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    81 year ago

    Teachers when I was little “You won’t always have a calculator with you” and here I am with a device more powerful than what sent astronauts to the moon in my pocket 24/7

    • @LukeMedia@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      Fun fact for you, many credit-card/debit-card chips alone are comparably powerful to the computers that sent us to the moon.

      It’s mentioned a bit in this short article about how EMV chips are made. This summary of compute power does come from a company that manufactures EMV chips, so there is bias present.