To me this evoked the image of a monk doing work in a monastery with a huge library. If you picture this monk as your CPU, and assume he works 12 hours every da

To me this evoked the image of a monk doing work in a monastery with a huge library. If you picture this monk as your CPU, and assume he works 12 hours every day, over a lifespan of 60 years, thats about the work a 1GHz CPU is capable of doing every second.