Editing Deep Rot

A computer made out of the undead at the whim of a mad lich. It originated when someone on /tg/ realized that since undead skeletons and zombies could be given simple commands (e.g. Attack anyone that enters this room except myself), they could be ordered to react to the actions of other skeletons and zombies 


(e.g. If one of those two skeletons raises their hand, raise yours, but not if they both raise their hands).


=WTF is this?=

OK, first Computer science for dummy's in six seconds. 

A computer works by storing information in a unit of information called a bit. A bit is a simple positive or negative status, or yes or no, only two options which is why computers are said to use '''bi'''nary language. Disk's work by having thousands of dips and bumps in there surface that are read by a laser. Bits  are then grouped into more complex bytes which roughly equal a single later worth of information. It takes roughly 8 bits of information (eight 'yes' or 'no') to make a byte and bytes are typical the smallest unit of information a computer works with. a byte can represent 256 different values. Bits also use the standard metric system for big things, a Kilobyte is one bits big, 125 bytes.

Deep Rot is the same way only instead of utilizing circuit boards (your computer),  vacuum tubes (ENIAC) or gears(the Antikythera mechanism), to compute the simple yes no operations, it use's skeletons. 

The concept is simple. A skeleton is stupid, but smart enough to recognize a simple a yes or no situation. imagine a nine skeleton set up. Eight skeletons are told to raise or lower the left arm in a pattern. 01101011

Skeleton nine is watching the first eight, and recognize that "01101011" equals the letter K, this simple ablity is the base of information storage, and from that computing. 

Additionally: a single skeleton can hold more then a single bit of information. more then just 'raise left arm' you can store as many as ten bits of information on a single skeleton since your using all the fingers. Even more if you consider the head as a 11 bit, more if you count arm position. The only limit to how much information a skeleton can hold is how many states of information the Skeleton receiving the information can understand, and how complex the programmer can make it. 

for the sake of argument were say a Skeleton can hold two bit of information as a simple base line so four skeletons can make a byte. using that as are base we can say that it can take 360 skeletons store a typical line of text from a book, 160000 to store a page of a novel and a mind boggling,4,194,304 to store a three minute song. 

your average desk top has 8GB, to replicate that storage in skeletons you need 4,000,000,000, four billion.  There are roughly seven billion people on this planet, so you would need to kill four out of every seven people, '''on the whole planet''' in order to make a working Skeleton Computer MEMORY CARD. 

In order to get a computer that can 'compute' you need billions more skeletons in order to have enough 'bits' that it can make decisions. 






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