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1.5 Exercise 11

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A floating-point operation is a single arithmetic operation such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. (a) Estimate the maximum number of floating-point operations a human being could possibly perform in a lifetime. (b) How long would it take a supercomputer to perform that many floating-point operations?

OpenStax University Physics Volume 1, 1.5 Estimates and Fermi Calculations, exercise 11

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