document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=105755>Question 105755</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Science and medicine. A computer can execute 36 instructions per microsecond.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "How many instructions can it execute in 4 min?   \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "OMG, please help me with the microsecond thing I do not understand this at all!! </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "How many instructions can it execute in 4 min?   \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "OMG, please help me with the microsecond thing I do not understand this at all!!\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Relax. If you simply know what microsecond means, the whole problem will be easy. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "Ok. Microsecond is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=10%5E-6 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"10%5E-6\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >. This means there are 1,000,000 (wow. that's alot) microseconds in a second. Now, how many seconds are there is a minute? 60. So multiply 1,000,000 by 60, which equals 60,000,000 (by the way, 60,000,000 microseconds is 1 minute, if you didn't know) Now, the question asks you how many instructions can it execute in FOUR (4) minutes. So multiply THAT by 4, which is 240,000,000. So 4 minutes is 240,000,000. However, we're not talking about 1 instruction per microsecond here. We're talking about THIRTY-SIX (36)! So we have to multiply 240,000,000 by 36, which finally equals 8,640,000,000. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "So, computer executes 8,640,000,000 instructions in 4 minutes.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Alright. Good luck. </SPAN>\n" );
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