What a nanosecond really looks like.

From a 1983 profile in 60 Minutes, Captain Grace M. Hopper, former American computer scientist and Navy rear admiral, and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, explains a nanosecond. You can skip to 4:00, but the whole thing is good.

Apr 30, 2019

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