Processor gurus, please:  using the equivalence that is suggested
by the primenet status page [86.6 P90 CPU yr/day = 1042 GFlops]
I calculate that a floating point operation must be about 3 CPU cycles.

Is this true?  Exactly?  Always?  Only for pentia?  Only for
Lucas Lehmer calculations?  spike

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