You are a scientist interested in nanotechnology. Your research group is to produce a set of tiny microchips that will be used in a new prototype nanocomputer. Your new microchip will be no bigger than an atom. Strung together the atoms can be aligned with a on spin or off spin which can work like a 0 or 1 data bit in today's computers.
With this amazing new nanotechnology, our sponsors want us to construct a networked super computer no bigger than the thickness of a piece of foil. Your task now is to figure out how many nanochips would be stacked on top of each other in the thickness of a piece of foil.
This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number ESI-0323036.