text: the average brain can calculate 100 million MIPS (Million computer Instructions Per Second )\n\nalso, scientists have calculated that while even the biggest computer has a capacity of around 10,000,000,000,000 bytes (10 to the power of 12), the human brain has a colossal 10 followed by 8,432 noughts, say the scientists who made the calculations in the journal Brain and Mind.\n\nso basically, you are pretty darn smart.