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Can supercomputers predict the future ?


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What can you actually do with one hundred million billion calculations per second ?

 

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54 minutes ago, UM-Bot said:

What can you actually do with one hundred million billion calculations per second ?

 

It is impossible for a supercomputer to predict the future now or even using a superior machine in a 1000 years time.

There are two reasons for this:

1. The computer would need to be fed with an infinite amount of information.

2. The universe doesn't obey deterministic mechanics so even if you could acquire infinite information (which you cannot) unfortunately things actually work off probabilities. Meaning you can only predict the probability of an event occurring not the actual outcome.

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