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IBM has a computer it calls the Blue Gene/L that can do 136.8 teracalculations per second. How many calculations can it do in a microsecond?

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1 second = 10^6 microsecond
136.8 · 10^12 calculations/ s · 1 s / 10^6 microsecond =
= 136.8 · 10^6 calculations/microsecond =
136.8 megacalculations / microsecond
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