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To: Izzy Dunne

>>a speed 25 million times as fast as the flap of hummingbird wings

The new measure of processor speed: HBW.<<

Oh Lord...

This could be the new technology reference
http://www.hbw.com/

Seriously, if the author thinks people don’t know what “giga” means he could have said a billion instead of bringing birds into it.


10 posted on 05/21/2007 7:06:09 AM PDT by gondramB (No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil)
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To: gondramB

Don’t forget the “Barn” as the measure of nuclear cross-section. Barn, as in “hit the broadside of a barn.”


30 posted on 05/21/2007 8:33:56 AM PDT by MainFrame65
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