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From: it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: New SparcStation
Message-ID: <it1.661506708@ra>
Date: 18 Dec 90 07:51:48 GMT
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>In <3300233@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>     I think it's a laugh that Sun quotes "28.5 mips"....  Sheesh.
>     This tells me Sun doesn't know anything about "significant
>     digits".

  You are wrong..  The rating is 28.48123861234561234123441234123412342341 mips
and rounded to 3 significant digits, hence 28.5..  I think Sun does know
about significant digits..



  Ha, just kidding..  I couldn't resist..

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