"This was a labour of faith, and Udo was prepared to work for years. Some slowly-converging pixels must have taken weeks."
Actually, what he doesn't take into account is that in the early 1200's, Brother Elias of Cortona developed MapReduce, which allowed the calculations to be spread among the vast network of monasteries that existed in that time. Monks willingly took breaks from the painstaking work of illuminating manuscripts to each calculate a few pixels' worth of the solution.
Actually, what he doesn't take into account is that in the early 1200's, Brother Elias of Cortona developed MapReduce, which allowed the calculations to be spread among the vast network of monasteries that existed in that time. Monks willingly took breaks from the painstaking work of illuminating manuscripts to each calculate a few pixels' worth of the solution.