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One of the fastest supercomputers in the world is NEC's Earth Simulator. It can complete 40 trillion calculations per second! How long would it take this computer to perform 250 million calculations?

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Answer:

0.0000625th of a second

Step-by-step explanation:

divide (2.5 x 108) / (4.0 x 1013) = .625 x 10-5 = 0.0000625th of a second.

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