It helped the calculation of things like artillery trajectories.
It won't be much, and it'll only be titles where there's heavy load on the GPU rather than CPU (so if it's physics or AI calculations slowing things down, there will be no uplift), but it's there.
Mr. Karageorgevich, whose friends call him P. D., is the rarefied real thing: Calculations vary widely, but Wikipedia puts him 1,375th in the line of succession to the British throne.
It slows one's step and adds a level of calculation — of how things will play — that undermines improvisations, the lightning reactions, the twists and surprises of a more dynamic leadership.
Never mind that critics argued that this figure, and the fears it engendered, were hugely exaggerated: for one thing, the calculation assumed a huge number of illegitimate children would be clamouring to enter the territory.
For one thing, this calculation assumes money is everything, which it surely isn't.
"If you want to know what 2 + 2 = 4 means," says Wittgenstein, "you have to ask how we work it out," because "we consider the process of calculation as the essential thing" (PG 333).
Makes sense, because trade-offs and cold calculation are how big things (like defeating Hitler) get done.
The Democrats' proportional system makes that calculation cumbersome, but two things are clear: Clinton and Obama are almost neck-and-neck and far from the clinching total.
Also on the list (at 130 quadrillion calculations per second, the thing would be fairly adept at multi-tasking) are gains in autonomous vehicle development, medicine and robotics.
