What operating system does an airplane run on?

Answer: Computers, tablets and smartphones have one processor, one memory, one.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You What operating system does an airplane run on? Magnar Nordal, Pilot and instructor Updated Jun 23, 2017 Computers, tablets and smartphones have one processor, one memory, one operating system (OS) and many applications. So when a component fails, the gadget is dead. Aircraft a... Read More » In the US, if you were diagnosed with an expensive disease and you didn't have health insurance, to get treatment, could you just commit a small crime and get put in prison for a few months, where you get free healthcare? Peri Dwyer, Chiropractic Physician (DC Life Chiropractic College 1986) Board-Certified in Pe... Written Feb 2 As Janet Mease points out, you'd be put in jail first awaiting trial, and if your crime were truly minor, you probably would never go to a state or Federal prison. While mo... Read More » What are the irrational numbers between 3 and 4? Peter Flom, Enthusiastic amateur mathematician. Written Jan 28 All of them. Wait, what? Surely not all the numbers between 3 and 4 are irrational! For instance 3.5 is not irrational. Indeed, there are an infinite number of rational numb... Read More » Why are a lot of cryptos decreasing right now? Should I sell, or hold? Tejiri Nuvie Odu, Training Manager | IT (2017-present) Written Jan 16 Technically, it's called a market correction. New bloods to Crypto Space may call it a crash. From my experience, and I've been at this quite a while now, it can take up to... Read More » If all the popular Quorans died, what would their headstones say? Farook Ajose, Black, African, Nigerian. Written Nov 14 Habib Fanny; Death socks! Sean Kernan; Keep it simple stupid. Richard Muller; I'm not dead, my energy has only been converted. Dushka Zapata; Smiling from beyond.... Read More » If I am bad in math, will I fail in life? Justin Ma, studied at Nanjing University Written Nov 23 NO. Please look at this person: Jack Ma, everybody knows him, right? But do you know he attended the university entrance examination 3 times? ... Read More » As a doctor, what do you think of the price of healthcare in America? Glenn Herman, 45 years a physician, a reader for longer Updated Tue Opinion #1: Doctors train more, work harder, and have more responsibility than the vast majority of the population. Education is expensive, and malpractice insurance costs ... Read More » What if you fuel your car and don't have your wallet? Ryan Payne, works at One Dish Cuisine Updated Aug 8, 2017 I did this once, though it was for a haircut, not gas. I did have my wallet and my debit card, but the barber only took cash. So, after an "oh s—t" moment, I told him I didn... Read More » What is a plot hole in a movie that killed the movie for you? Kimberly Klaus, Quality Assurance Analyst at American Family Insurance (2009-present) Written Wed It didn't exactly kill the movie for me, but in Spider-Man 2 (the Tobey McGuire era) Doc Ock throws a CAR through the plate glass window of the shop where Peter and Mary Ja... Read More » Is there an empirical approximation to estimate the size of a factorial? For example, roughly how big is 120! without calculating it? Peter Flom, Enthusiastic amateur mathematician. Written Jan 27 There is Stirling's approximation and it's one of the most startling results in mathematics. [math]n! \approx \sqrt{2\pi n}(\frac{n}{e})^n[/math] Startling! We start out with a purely arithmetic calculation about the positive ... Read More » Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive these emails in the future, please unsubscribe.