一本科幻书 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第25章2

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第25章2  

"Your task
O puter ..." began Fook.
"No
wait a minute
this isn't right
" said Lunkwill
worried. "We distinctly designed this puter to be the greatest one ever and we're not making do with second best. Deep Thought
" he addressed the puter
"are you not as we designed you to be
the greatest most powerful puter in all time?"
"I described myself as the second greatest
" intoned Deep Thought
"and such I am."
Another worried look passed beeen the o programmers. Lunkwill cleared his throat.
"There must be some mistake
" he said
"are you not a greatest puter than the Milliard Gargantubrain which can count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond?"
"The Milliard Gargantubrain?" said Deep Thought with unconcealed contempt. "A mere abacus — mention it not."
"And are you not
" said Fook leaning anxiously forward
"a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"
"A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff."
The o programmers sat in unfortable silence for a moment. Then Lunkwill leaned forward again.
"But are you not
" he said
"a more fiendish disputant than the Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus 12
the Magic and Indefatigable?"
"The Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler
" said Deep Thought thoroughly rolling the r's
"could talk all four legs off an Arcturan MegaDonkey — but only I could persuade it to go for a walk afterwards."
"Then what
" asked Fook
"is the problem?"