Your smartphone is more powerful than NASA's 1969 computers
Your modern smartphone is tens of thousands of times more powerful than the computers that landed Apollo 11 on the moon, showcasing incredible technological advancement.
The computer that guided Apollo 11 to the moon in 1969 had only 72KB of memory and ran at 0.043 MHz. Today, your smartphone boasts over 4GB of RAM and processors clocking in at 2,500 MHz. This means your phone is over 55,000 times more powerful in memory and 58,000 times faster in processing speed than the Apollo Guidance Computer.
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