Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 12:32:45 10/29/98
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On October 29, 1998 at 13:16:53, blass uri wrote: > >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 I would guess this means Floating-point operations per second. That is generally how it is done, though of course they could mean integer operations, in which case the speed above speed is a bit inflated, compared to what its performance would be on 'real' applications. Jeremiah
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