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If a computer has clock freq of 3 GHz, and a program on that computer has a runtime of 360 ns, how man

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1080 instructions would be executed during the program's runtime.

How to find the number of instructions

To calculate the number of instructions executed in a program's runtime, you need to know the number of instructions executed per clock cycle.

number of Instructions = clock frequency * runtime

Given:

Clock frequency = 3 GHz = 3 * 10⁹ Hz

runtime = 360 ns = 360 * 10⁻⁹ s

number of Instructions = 3 * 10⁹ * 360 * 10⁻⁹

number of Instructions = 1080

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if a computer has clock freq of 3 ghz, and a program on that computer has a runtime of 360 ns, how many instructions executed in the prog runtime?

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