One method used to measure the speed of supercomputers is the number of floating point
mathematical operations the computer can perform in
one second. This is often referred to by the acronym
FLOPS. For many years since 1992, the number of
FLOPS performed by the largest supercomputer
available that year was recorded, and the natural log of
each value of the response variable taken.
Based on the scatterplot and computer output, a
reasonable estimate for the number of computations
performed per second by the largest supercomputer in
2007 is:
O 13.3 billion FLOPS because 9 - 06498(15) 305246
13.2716
O 17,334 billion FLOPS because
iny =0.6498(15) +0.0134 -9,7604 and 9.7604 - 17,334,
In(FLOPS) vs. Years Since 1992
O 580,473 billion FLOPS because
In y =0.0498(15) + 3.5246 = 13.2716 and e13.2716 580,473,
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O 5,759,701,813 billion FLOPS because
In y =0.6498(15) +0.0134 =9,7604 and 109.7604 -
In(FLOPS)
5,759,701,813.
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