That’s a big number
Question: According to Gordon Moore, the estimated number of transistors manufactured worldwide in 1995 was roughly equal to:
- the number of buildings in the United States
- the number of atoms in a microgram of gold
- the number of raindrops that fell on California in 1995
- the number of grains of sand on a typical beach
Answer: the number of raindrops that fell on California in 1995
Source: quoted in The Microprocessor: A Biography, by M. Malone, p. 286
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