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> The engineers had originally calculated that 7 buffers per chip would be needed, but this made the chip slightly too large too build. Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman had previously calculated that 5 buffers would be enough, using a differential equation involving the average number of 1 bits in an address. They resubmitted the design of the chip with only 5 buffers, and when they put the machine together, it worked fine.
> The CM-1 uses Feynman's algorithm for computing logarithms that he had developed [ . . . ] Feynman also discovered that the CM-1 would compute the Feynman diagrams for quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations faster than an expensive special purpose machine developed at Caltech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
It was a 12-dimensional CPU communications structure, and being built by TMC, obviously it ran #lisp.