Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
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.
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