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Subject: Re: IBM

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:16:53 10/29/98

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On October 29, 1998 at 11:52:21, Peter Hegger wrote:

>I read an article in today's newspaper about IBM's new super computer which is
>nicknamed "Pacific Blue". According to this article PB can make 3.9 trillion
>calculations per second.

What is the definition of a calculation?

Adding integer numbers is different from adding real numbers or from multiplying
and I do not understand what do you mean by calculation.

Uri





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