Distributed Computing
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Sending off math problems to your friends in order to solve a problem set faster.
Note here that it’s important that we don’t waste any effort. If I mail my friend a letter to ask her what 1+1 is, I’m wasting time, I can do it myself. The letter takes longer to send than it does to solve the problem.
But say I had something like, “I’m giving you 100 problems and Jeff 100 problems, write down the answers and then bring it back.”
They each can work on their 100 problems, then return the letter by the time a single person got to maybe 150 problems. Now we’re saving a lot of time and we just split it into two.
Imagine I have dozens of computers, or hundreds, and I can split my questions so that they can all work together to get the answer.
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