In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
PETAFLOP
Etymology
Noun
petaflop (plural petaflops)
(computing) Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer
a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.
1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.
Source: Wiktionary
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