There's a fantastic associated YouTube video that talks through these too: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio</a><p>It's a rabbit hole that had be fascinated for quite a while.
For those who might not be aware, early computer memory relied on essentially the same principle:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory</a>
Dupe of <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974165">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974165</a><p>Tom7 content deserves being posted every day though.
I think this is a candidate for best two sentence combo ever written:<p>So we have 1 million chainsaws per second, for 335.36 hours, which is 1.215 × 10^12, a configuration known as tera-wield. This requires expert juggling skills.
Figure 1 is somehow beautiful in it's chaotic dis/organised structure, a representation of the whole internet<i>, something which us humans now so heavily rely on<p></i>ipv6 yadda yadda yadda