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Subject: Re: IBM's new 360 Teraflops computer in 2004

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:12:58 11/20/02

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On November 19, 2002 at 20:15:02, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>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 trillions = 1E15
>1 billion (European) =  1 million millions = 1E12
>1 trillion (European) = 1 million million millions = 1E18
>
> ;o)


Oops, sorry!  I had completely forgotten about this difference.



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