Qin I
Names: Qin IQin 1.0human-formation computermotherboard
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 17 (17)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 17Qin I is a thirty-six kilometer square computer motherboard made of thirty million soldiers, with CPU, memory, bus of light cavalry, scribes as hard drive, and display.
- Ch 17Qin I ran about a year and two months of computation, pausing twice for bad weather, and produced the orbits of the three suns for two years.
- Ch 17Qin I is a human-formation computer made of thirty million men; it finished its final calculation and went into standby at dawn.
Connections
- created byVon Neumanndesigned it with Newton
- created byIsaac Newtonco-developed the software
- led byQin Shi Huangcommands the army that forms it