{"id":92,"date":"2024-12-14T21:54:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/?p=92"},"modified":"2024-12-14T21:54:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T02:54:15","slug":"shave-and-a-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/shave-and-a-haircut\/","title":{"rendered":"Shave and a Haircut &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Working on a background page for my IEEE-754 project, I looked up the history of the Intel 8087 coprocessor (the origin of the IEEE-754 floating-point standard), and discovered that it had 65,000 transistors, and sold for about $150. Since \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shave_and_a_Haircut\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shave_and_a_Haircut\">shave and a haircut \u2026 two bits<\/a>\u201d puts the value of two bits at 25\u00a2, and you can store a bit of information using one transistor, that would put the cost of the 8087 at less than .02 of a bit per bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on a background page for my IEEE-754 project, I looked up the history of the Intel 8087 coprocessor (the origin of the IEEE-754 floating-point standard), and discovered that it had 65,000 transistors, and sold for about $150. Since \u201cshave and a haircut \u2026 two bits\u201d puts the value of two bits at 25\u00a2, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/federated.press\/@Cvickery\/113654579551449185","error":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophervickery.com\/Notes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}