Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 17:15:02 11/19/02
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On November 19, 2002 at 20:03:50, Roy Eassa wrote: >On November 19, 2002 at 19:29:40, Rex wrote: > >>Wonder what computer chess would be like with a computer doing 300 Billion >>calculations per second. > > >The article says "100 thousand billion calculations per second," which is >actually 100 TRILLION calculations per second. may be because USA and europe don't use the value for billion, trillion ... http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/units.htm#ratios 1 billion (American) = 1,000,000,000 = 1 thousand millions = 1E9 1 trillion (American) = 1 million millions = 1E12 1 quadrillion (American) = 1 thousand millions = 1E15 1 billion (European) = 1 million millions = 1E12 1 trillion (European) = 1 million million millions = 1E18 ;o)
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