The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations
Christopher Gottbrath, Jeremy Bailin, Casey A. Meakin, Tracy L. Thompson, J. J. Charfman · arXiv (Cornell University) · 1999
We show that, in the context of Moore's Law, overall productivity can be increased for large enough computations by `slacking' or waiting for some period of time before purchasing a computer and beginning the calculation.