> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Brock
>
> . . . which is almost fast enough to track the spending of
> the U.S. Federal government.
... which spends on the order of US$75,000 per second, every second of
the year (including leap seconds, if any).
-jc-
> <snip>
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM Corp. have
> devised the world's most powerful software - a scientific
> application that sustained 207.3 trillion operations per second . . .
> </snip>
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