Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Beyond Teraflops (Easy 1/2 answer)
Organization: NAS - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:56:58 GMT
Message-ID: <D25rqo.AF7@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>

In article <1995Jan9.124027.6728@sed.psrw.com> djensen@sed.psrw.com
(David Jensen) writes:
>But what are the next couple prefixes?
>????flops == 1e18 floating point operations per second

	Eka-- meaning "beyond." (ha!)

>????flops == 1e21 floating point operations per second
	Check an almanac for the next SI prefix.

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