Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

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

Chapter 8 - Exercises - Page 424: 15b

Answer

0.77 seconds

Work Step by Step

There are $2^{56}$ keys, one key can be checked in one floating point operations The gaming computer can do 93 ×10$^{15}$ floating point operations per second So time for checking 256 keys will be - time = $\frac{2^{56}}{93×10^{15}}$ seconds time = 0.77 seconds
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