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(sigh)
I really wish people would stop talking about MIPS as if it means something.

MIPS is the second most useless measure of computing power there is, just
behind MFLOPS. 

Can you compare cars based on how many times the pistons go up and down?

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Dan Walkowski                          | To understand recursion, 
Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. |    you must first understand recursion.
walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu                   |