One Thousand One Hundred and Six Change the World

"No. 1 stabilizer, ready. The power supply is stable, and everything is normal!" An engineer pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked at the instrument in front of him, and reported what he saw loudly.

"No. 2 stabilizer, everything is normal! The voltage is very stable, without any change..." Another staff member was also reporting what he had learned. After all, this experiment involved too many things. Even the steady He involuntarily wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Several generals of the military and a government deputy prime minister in charge of the project stood in the seats watching the experiment, with nervous expressions on their faces. If this experiment is successful, then Germany will once again be at the forefront of the world and become the first country to master this heaven-defying technology.

This can't help them not to be nervous, because this technology can lead the era into the next era, and the country that first masters this technology will have the ability to become a great country that leads the world by virtue of its experience and innovation in this area. But what made them upset was that not all Germans were involved in this project, and there were even many scientists from France and Italy, as well as Britain and Poland.

"The equipment is working normally, I will input instructions, and then this machine is about to do unprecedented great things." The head of a British scientist is not very tall, but in this laboratory, his status is almost the same as that of Aka. Much makes no difference. The codename given to him by the Third Reich is "God", and he is indeed carrying out this work of creating a god.

This huge machine, which almost took up 60% of the entire laboratory, started to make a slight noise, and the roulette on the machine started to rotate quickly, but the speed was not fast. But as the machine started to work, everyone watching from the side of the laboratory felt their hearts beating to their throats.

"Squeak." Corresponding to the boring and low sound of the machine, there was a simultaneous sharp sound. On the operation interface of the machine facing everyone, a thin strip of white paper began to flow out from a narrow exit position, and as the long white paper was continuously spit out from the machine, there was a sharp sound. There has been no break.

"Is this thing really as powerful as the head of state said?" A military general turned his head and asked a general who was following this field who specialized in this work. The general who was asked had the rank of major general on his shoulder. , but it seems that the age is only thirty or forty years old.

Hearing the general's question, the major general answered directly: "You know, the help this machine can provide cannot be compared with military strength or other things. It can be said that as long as this thing can work normally work, then everything in our hands will enter a brand new century.”

"This is a computer with electronic tubes. It can replace humans to perform a large number of calculations. The unit of calculation speed is seconds." The major general of the German Wehrmacht has been in charge of this project. I understand that

What kind of significance does this great invention and creation have for the entire war.

"Calculation? What does calculation have to do with war?" The German general frowned, and then added: "Maybe the logistics department will use some statistical calculations, but the power consumed by this thing and our funds... …I'd rather have 20 accountants than replace it with such a clunky thing."

"Sir, 20 accountants can't calculate 6,700 calculations per second." The British expert who was still fiddling with the machine just now and came over with a dozen German scientists heard what the German general said, so he smiled Said: "And you can't guarantee that these 6700 calculations are absolutely correct, but this machine of mine can!"

If you rely on manpower to calculate, then in the process of complex calculations, there will be some errors more or less, and these errors will accumulate in the end and will destroy the results of a large-scale calculation. Thousands of calculations are time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the results are not necessarily accurate, which restricts the development and progress of human civilization.

But this computer is different, it can use the specified rules to perform calculations, and the values ​​obtained are absolutely correct. Although there are many "problems" that it cannot calculate or will disturb the program, under the specified program, it will never make mistakes. Yes, this is enough to make people pay attention to the future of this thing.

"One second, 6700 calculations?" The German general couldn't believe his ears. Although he didn't know how complicated the calculation was, he understood what the number 6700 was.

This means that if he finds three soldiers from the main infantry regiment, and then makes them lie down within a second at the same time-thinking about the scene is magnificent enough, so the admiral looked at it even more in amazement. The only thing left in this seemingly huge machine was a hehe exclamation.

"Mr. Turing, can this machine really perform such complex calculations smoothly?" The major general who had boasted just now obviously didn't have much confidence in his heart when facing real professionals. So while the admiral beside him was sighing, he asked the British scientist Mr. Turing beside him in a low voice.

"If I were alone, of course it would be impossible to complete this masterpiece. However, your scientists have done research in this area, and many places have inspired me a lot. For example, the use of electronic tubes has solved many problems. .” Turing talked eloquently when he mentioned his major.

When he was first brought to Germany from the UK by the German special forces, he didn't believe that there were still a group of people in the world who knew more about artificial intelligence and computer science than he did. But when he saw the laboratory prepared for him by Akado and the famous German scientists, he was completely overwhelmed by the forward-looking Germans.

Germany is no worse than the UK in computer research, and is even far ahead of the UK in actual operation and finished product construction. So Turing immediately integrated into this grand plan, and finally made this German computer really work.

After working day and night for more than a year, German scientists, as well as British and French scientists like Turing, finally came up with a feasible plan to turn the head of state's plan, which is close to making a god, into a reality .

"The computer is running normally, it is working smoothly! My God! It is calculating according to the program I designed! It is alive! It is alive!" A German scientist shouted excitedly while bending over He bent down and kissed the control panel in front of him with his lips, and in this laboratory, there were countless people as excited as him.

What a great proposition it is to give life to a machine? Of course, people living today know that until 2016, humans did not give life to a machine in the true sense, and the alpha dog that can think and summarize is still at the stage of playing Go... In 1939, this group of The scientists who are striving for the goal have been so excited that tears filled their eyes because of the small success in front of them.

In the eyes of Turing, in the eyes of these crazy German scientists, maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, human beings will surpass the evolution of thousands of years in the past, and complete a shocking leap of their own. They don't think they are too advanced, because they have just completed the first supercomputing in human history.

"What is it doing?" The admiral who was shocked just now frowned, and suddenly asked Turing next to him: "You all said it was calculating, so, now, what kind of computer is it used to test its calculation? Complicated topic?"

Hearing this question from the general beside him, the major general in charge of the project finally had a chance to show himself. He grabbed the topic with a smile, and showed off to the general: "Before, the intelligence agencies deciphered their codes based on the intercepted coded telegrams between Britain and the United States. You know, in the mathematics department of a university, 560 Mathematicians are all working on this project without sleeping and eating... It took them two months to calculate the result, and this computer is checking the calculation."

"My God! Can it decipher the enemy's code?" The admiral once again looked at the huge machine that was still working smoothly, and the room was still filled with small buzzing sounds, but this The sound was no less deafening to his ears than thunder.

"Theoretically, it can only do calculations, but it can help people do calculations and shorten the time needed to decipher codes." Turing proudly said to the German general: "It can also calculate ballistics...or we need it to calculate Anything. Of course, we will continue to improve this thing, make it 10,000 operations per second, 100,000 operations, all the way to 1 million or even 10 million operations per second."

If Akado stood here, he would definitely laugh, because in his original era, a laptop computer could do the data that Turing boasted. But everyone present here was shocked by these numbers, 1 million times a second? What kind of transcendent concept is that?

"The result is out!" Over there, an assistant holding a long note in his hand reported loudly: "The computer shows that our original calculation results have three places that are contrary to logic, and the rest are not logical. Compatible with the calculation results."

"Very good! If there are no accidents, gentlemen." The major general in charge of this project announced in a trembling voice with excitement: "We have cracked the code that the British army is using!"