Bee verses Computer...

How smart is the common honeybee?
Evidently, far smarter then today's supercomputers..
And they are a marvel of miniaturization..

One of the world's most powerfull computers can attain the amazing processing speed of 16 gigaflops..
In laymans terms, such a computer can perform 16 billion simple arithmetic operations, such as adding two numbers,
each second..
In contrast, a comservative count of all electrical and chemical
events takeing place in a bee's brain shows that the lowly honeybee performs the equivalent of ten trillion operations per second.. Amazing!

The bee does all that while consuming a lot less power then a computer..
According to Byte magazine, " a honeybee's brain dissipates less the 10 microwatts..

It is superior or about seven orders of magnitude to the most efficient of today's manufactured computers."
Hence over ten million bee brains can operate on the power needed for a single 100- watt light bulb....
The most efficent of today's computers use hundreds of millions of times more energy to perform an equivant number of operations...