Light travels basically a foot in a nanosecond. Simple rule of thumb.

光行进的速度是每纳秒一英尺,很简单的经验法则了。

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So, let's think qualitatively for a second about what that means or what the real meaning of that is. What that is telling us is that according to Newtonian mechanics and Coulomb's force law, is that the electron should actually plummet into the nucleus in 0.1 nanoseconds.

让我们定性的想想,这意味着什么,这告诉我们,根据牛顿力学,和库仑定律，电子,在0。1纳秒内,就会掉到原子核里面。

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If I'm running at nanosecond speed, 1000 n, the size of the problem, whatever it is, is 1000, and I've got a log algorithm, it takes 10 nanoseconds to complete.

如果这个问题的规模，也就是n，是，如果这个问题是对数级的，这将会占据10纳秒的时间，你一眨眼的时间。

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Now, the nanosecond is what, 10 to the minus 9 seconds.

一纳秒就是10的9次方分之一秒，而这个电脑一秒可以做2G次运算。

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