Computing performance prefixes

Computing performance prefixes

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The purpose of the paper is to examine the benefits of multi-platform video games for learning a foreign language. The participants of the study consisted 130 preparatory class students, 82 of which were female and 48 of which were male. This research was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the multi-platform game was prepared to form an i...

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... it has not been 70 years after the manufacturing of the first computer which weighed over a ton and required an army of operators to run, today nanotechnology enables us to fit billions of transistors into areas to be measured in millimetres. Hence, the terms having been used to describe the computer speed and capacity such as "super", "mega", "ultra", and "giga" has been replaced with the terms such as "tera", "peta", and "exa" as the former ones were not just enough to describe the largeness of the related numbers (Table 1). Computers can now be considered as the most important assistants of the humanity in the fields of education, health, engineering, marketing, economics, and communication as they can provide precise and accurate calculations besides saving time. ...