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“Hello, Cosmos,” said George nervously. He’d never spoken to a computer before.
“Hello, George,” replied Cosmos. “I am the most powerful computer in the world. In
the future, there will be computers more powerful than me. But there are none in the
past or present.”
“Sorry about this.” Eric whispered to George. “Computers can be a bit touchy sometimes.”
“I am cleverer than Eric too, boasted Cosmos“ Says who? said Eric crossly, glaring at
the screen.
“Says me,” said Cosmos. “I can compute billions of numbers in a nanosecond. In less time
than it takes you to say ‘Cosmos is great, I can compute the life of planets, of comets,
of stars and of galaxies”. Before you can say “Cosmos is the most impressive computer
that I have ever seen, he is truly incredible.”
“All right, all right,” said Eric. “Cosmos, you are the most impressive computer we have
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