{"id":158,"date":"2006-10-09T09:14:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/158"},"modified":"2006-10-09T09:14:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:14:42","slug":"bad-math-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/158","title":{"rendered":"Bad math again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder who&#8217;s really, really bad at math: me or George Gilder and the Wired editors:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To handle the current load of 100 million queries a day, its collective input-output bandwidth must be in the neighborhood of 3 petabits per second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(From <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.10\/cloudware.html?pg=2&#038;topic=cloudware&#038;topic_set=\">page 2 of a Wired story<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to concede that there are things I don&#8217;t know about Google and\/or Gilder&#8217;s calculation (not to mention his penchant for big numbers), but according to my calculation, that&#8217;s off by a factor of about 20 million. What a big number _that_ is! I&#8217;m impressed! I can&#8217;t think of any junk I could add to my calculation to get anywhere near that.<\/p>\n<p>For your reference, since you care enough to read to the end of this article, my calculation was thus: I did a Google query and added the 5kB page to the two 5kB images (which are usually cached for me, but we&#8217;ll assume they never are) plus 1kB up for the request, to get 16kB per query.<\/p>\n<p>16kB * 8b\/B * 100e6\/day \/ 24hr\/day \/ 3600s\/hr = 148Mb\/s<\/p>\n<p>3e15b\/s \/ 148Mb\/s = 20e6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder who&#8217;s really, really bad at math: me or George Gilder and the Wired editors: &#8220;To handle the current load of 100 million queries a day, its collective input-output bandwidth must be in the neighborhood of 3 petabits per second.&#8221; (From page 2 of a Wired story). I&#8217;m willing to concede that there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,23,26,27,49],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business","tag-google","tag-humor","tag-information-technology","tag-silliness","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}