Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 5 - Exercises - Page 273: 9

Answer

$5\times 10^{9}$ floating-point operations

Work Step by Step

Number of characters in one page = 65*60 = 3900 Time taken by printer = 3900/780 = 5 seconds 1 gigaflop machine will perform $10^{9}$ floating-point operations in 1 second. Hence, in 5 seconds it will perform $5*10^{9}$ floating-point operations.
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