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Grace Hopper on Letterman

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Grace Hopper on Letterman

Grace Hopper appears on Letterman and uses a foot-long piece of wire to show how far light travels in a nanosecond.

Brought up whenever latency, light speed or the size of a nanosecond comes up, as the classic physical demonstration.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2018

Topics

  • History of computing
  • Tech pioneers & interviews
  • Fundamental physics

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