But calculations like these only need between five to 15 digits to be accurate, and we currently know pi to
quadrillions of digits.
Even when the transmission is done through higher bandwidth, quantum teleportation would take more than
quadrillions of years.
As of early 2014, tens of
quadrillions of dollars have been stolen from innocent tenants to line the pockets of the perpetrators of this scam.
As of early 2014, tens of
quadrillions of dollars have been stolen from innocent tenants to line the pockets of the perpetrators of this scam.
To think, remember, imagine, and see — all these amazing capacities of the brain come from billions of neurons with
quadrillions of precise connections interacting to form the most remarkable dynamical system in the universe.
Lenski's experiment began in 1988 and has, to date, involved nearly 70,000 generations and
quadrillions of cells.
In the following decades, astronomers have found hints that gamma rays — the universe's highest - energy photons — could be coming from Cygnus X-3 with energies as high as trillions or even
quadrillions of electronvolts (eV).
And China recently announced plans to upgrade the Tianhe - 2 machine to about 100 petaflops (
quadrillions of floating point operations per second).
Simulations can range in the trillion - particle realm and produce several petabytes —
quadrillions of bytes — of data in a single run.
Each crystal has
quadrillions of molecules rotating inside a nanocage, and the chemists know the position of each molecule.
Since then, they've been in tentacles, roots, feet, wings, blood, and trillions,
quadrillions of bacteria in between.
Not burn it for
quadrillions of years in torture.
You have several
quadrillions of particles interacting with the environment and you, each having what you call energy.
Bitcoin mining amounts to
quadrillions of relatively simple calculations per second, all of which contribute to the overall security of the system.
Laniakea, they predict, contains 100,000 galaxies with the mass of a hundred
quadrillion of our Suns.
And the Wii was pretty powerful for 2001, when it was called the Gamecube, but they still sold
a quadrillion of them on the basis of Wii Sports.
And the Wii was pretty powerful for 2001, when it was called the Gamecube, but they still sold
a quadrillion of them on the basis of Wii Sports.
Not exact matches
What's making this revolution possible, as Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee report in «Big Data Meets Biology,» are the extraordinary new technologies that can now begin to make sense
of the estimated 750
quadrillion bytes
of health - related data we produce every day.
For those
of us who aren't used to counting that high, that comes out to more than $ 92
quadrillion.
In Zimbabwe, a country where hyperinflation led to $ 1 being worth 35
quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars, the relative security
of cryptocurrency already came at a premium.
From its high in 2007
of 34.7
quadrillion British thermal units (Btu), the difference between exports and imports has fallen steadily to 7.32 Btu, slightly above the 7.25 Btu in 1982.
While there's no way
of knowing for sure, estimates
of the face value
of all derivatives outstanding tops a
quadrillion (1,000 trillion) dollars, or more than 14 times the entire world's annual GDP.
So if I say that Zimbabwe has tight money and a
quadrillion percent inflation, merely because interest rates are high, that's also a matter
of opinion?»
Derivatives, such as futures contracts, forward contracts, options, warrants, ETFs, and swaps are estimated by Jeff Desjardins
of The Money Project to range in size from $ 630 trillion to $ 1.2
quadrillion.
This is a being that can simultaneously watch, hear or ignore any number
of a
quadrillion trillion trillion living or inanimate things throughout the universe.
Taking the form
of a letter to Mother Nature, it began by offering brief thanks to her for «raising us from simple self - replicating chemicals to
quadrillion - celled animals.»
The change in distance between Earth and one
of these pulsars is staggeringly small: about one part in a
quadrillion.
The lens is known as Abell 2744, a cosmic pileup where four groups
of galaxies are colliding to create one gargantuan gathering with the mass
of about 2
quadrillion suns (SN: 6/13/15, p. 32).
(Don't worry, it's only about 90 metric tons out
of a total
of about 5
quadrillion metric tons.)
And all
of this from a distance
of more than a
quadrillion miles!
The pulses reached intensities
of 100
quadrillion kilowatts per square centimetre.
That may sound like a lot, but in fact it's a tiny amount — an ounce
of lead contains about 82 million
quadrillion atoms.
The breakdown
of energy sources in the United States (measured in
quadrillion Btu), according to the Energy Information Administration.
Wood has calculated that 1.6
quadrillion tons
of gold must lie in Earth's core.
Current annual global production is one - hundredth
of a microgram; its value translates to about a
quadrillion dollars per ounce.
But now we're in the era
of big data, which harnesses the computing power
of massive databases with bytes measured in teras (trillions) and petas (
quadrillions), combined with sophisticated algorithms that can grapple with problems on a once - unimaginable scale.
In the most recent version, one can see how the ~ 97
quadrillion british - thermal units (quads)
of energy used in the United States can be broken down by uses and sectors.
As the beams move through a series
of amplifiers, their energy increases exponentially: From beginning to end, the beams» total energy grows from one - billionth
of a joule to four million joules, increasing by a factor
of more than a
quadrillion.
Mira is a 10 - petaflops computer that packs 10
quadrillion calculations into each second
of computing time.
It is some 10
quadrillion times bigger than the mass
of the W and Z bosons that define the strength
of the weak nuclear force, for example.
Consider that the nerve cells
of a human embryo have a cool
quadrillion connections to make before a basic baby can take shape.
«The speed
of light in any two directions is the same to about one part in a
quadrillion,» says Holger Müller, a former member
of the Berlin team who now works at Stanford.
It sees coal as remaining dominant in the electricity generation sector: global consumption will rise by 1.3 percent a year — from 147
quadrillion British thermal units
of energy in 2010 to 180
quadrillion Btu in 2020 to 220
quadrillion Btu in 2040.
There is as yet no definition
of the minimum size an object has to attain to be classified as a moon, so if you are happy to give the label «moon» to any piece
of solid matter orbiting a planet — including every ice crystal in the rings
of Saturn — then the number could run into
quadrillions.
Lasers that can produce a brief terawatt, or trillion - watt, burst are commonplace, and petawatt lasers capable
of generating a
quadrillion watts are possible.
From all these data, the scientists determined the cluster's mass: two
quadrillion times the mass
of our own sun, most
of it dark matter and hot, tenuous gas.
The annual consumption
of gasoline in the United States, about 131 billion gallons
of gas, is equivalent to 25
quadrillion pounds
of prehistoric biomass and releases some 2.6 trillion pounds
of carbon dioxide.
The new machine, known as the Sunway TaihuLight, has a peak performance
of 93 petaflop per second (Pflop / s), or 93
quadrillion calculations per second.
It contains about 100
quadrillion times the mass
of the sun, equivalent to 100,000 Milky Ways.
With this technique, it is now possible to reliably determine a specific molecule in a mixture
of one
quadrillion (1015) molecules.