Amazon Echo's Alexa Calculates 10 To The Power Of 308

In 2015, Amazon released a new type of consumer electronics - a smart audio speaker with a built-in voice assistant, which is managed exclusively by voice, without pressing a single button - "Alexa is always listening" and responding to user commands. This smart column Amazon Echo with voice its assistant named Alexa supports the management of many smart home devices and, like telephones and tablets, has its own application store. The system is capable of limited speech interaction with the user, the reproduction of music, the design of task lists, the installation of alarms, the broadcasting of podcasts, the reproduction of audio books and reading out the weather forecast, information about traffic jams, etc.

In the video at the top of the page, the owner of Echo tests its calculation capabilities. In a meeting, a co-worker asked their corporate Echo to calculate 10 to the power of 200. Alexa responded with 1 and a bunch of zeros with different tones. The owner of the video found the change of voice amusing, so when he got back home he decided to make a little test of his own. He tried on Alexa a few times to find what is the largest number that Alexa can say. It turns out to be 10 to the power of 308. Alexa not only replies with a bunch of zeros but also changed to 'ohh' at some point.

At the moment, over 20 million Amazon Echo devices have been sold in the world, more than a million of them in Europe.