You can't be sure.
We should be looking for a good, practical approximation here, not a perfect answer, which we won't get.
Wall clock time for a computation is a pretty good surrogate for how much energy is consumed, one that's easy to measure and also interesting even to non-technical people.
Tom Ritchford /
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2024-08-06 11:49:26
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