Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One quadrillion (1015) hertz.
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- noun metrology An
SI unit offrequency equal to 1015hertz .
Etymologies
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peta- + hertz.
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Examples
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So to a first approximation, we have these things -- twenty-petahertz synapse firings.
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So to a first approximation, we have these things -- twenty-petahertz synapse firings.
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So to a first approximation, we have these things -- twenty-petahertz synapse firings.
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Surely computers in thirty years will have some concept of speed, it probably just won’t be called petahertz.
Computers in 2034 2004
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Futurist Jakob Nielsen asserts that home computers will have microprocessors running at 3 petahertz 300,000 gigahertz that have a petabyte’s worth of memory, a billion gigabytes of storage and a 250-gigabit broadband connection.
Computers in 2034 2004
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