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Q: How many calculations could ENIAC perform per second?
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How many operations could eniac perform at one time?

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What Can the eniac do?

multiply divide and count Each of ENIAC's 20 accumulators could do 5000 additions or subtractions per second. A special panel called the "multiplier" could control 4 accumulators to do multiplication by repeated addition and shifting. A special panel called the "divider/square rooter" could control 5 accumulators to do division by repeated subtraction and shifting or square roots using a modification of the division process. A special panel called the "master programmer" could be programmed to sequence the machine through arbitrary functions or iterative processes.


How much did the IBM cost and how many calculations could it perform per second?

cost 100 million 100 trillion


How did computers function before microprocessors?

They could only perform basic calculations.


How fast was the ENIAC's processor?

Each accumulator could do 5000 additions/subtractions per second and there were 20 accumulators that could operate simultaneously.


How did the ENIAC display or inform of information and calculations?

ENIAC had neon lamps and oscilloscopes to show current machine state, but these were usually only used for test & debug purposes. The only real output device on ENIAC was one electromechanical IBM cardpunch that could punch 100 cards per minute, 8 ten digit numbers per card maximum.


Can the ENIAC store represent and process movies or sound?

No, ENIAC could store only 20 numbers of 10 digits length. All other numbers were constants set on switches by hand. It takes thousands of numbers per second of sound and millions of numbers per second of a movie.


Why was the ENIAC built?

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)It was the first digital computer developed at University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. It was designed for the Army for advanced calculations at high speeds and to allow charting of ballistic trajectories for artillery ammunition. By the time it was invented WWII was over and was instead used for calculations for the atomic bomb, and other calculations for advancing war technology.


What the supercomputer could perform 5000 additions or subtractions per second?

5,000 calculations per second is glacially slow for a supercomputer. I do not believe anyone ever built a supercomputer that was that slow. The first viable supercomputer was the Cray-1, built in 1976. The Cray-1 was able to perform about 136 Mega-FLOPS (136,000). Today's supercomputers perform more than 5 Trillion (5,000,000,000,000) floating point operations per second (FLOPS).The first computer deliberately designed to be "significantly faster" than the fastest computer of the time, the IBM NORC is occasionally called the "first supercomputer" (although it doesn't meet all the requirements usually set for qualification) could perform 66,667 additions or subtractions per second (but this was a unique one of a kind computer). This is more than 13 times faster than the speed you are asking about.Even the first computer generally identified as a "supercomputer" the UNIVAC LARC could perform 250,000 additions or subtractions per second (however it was far from viable as only two of these machines were built, UNIVAC spent more building them than they were payed, and it was already completely obsolete the day the first one was finished). This is 50 times faster than the speed you are asking about.All later supercomputers (viable or not) were faster than the LARC.You might be thinking of ENIAC, which did 5000 additions or subtractions per second per accumulator but had 20 accumulators and sometimes operated 2 or more accumulators at the same time. But NOBODY ever considered ENIAC a supercomputer.


What functions could the Mechanical calculators perform?

Mechanical calculators could perform basic arithmetic functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They could also perform more complex calculations such as square roots and logarithms depending on the model and design. Mechanical calculators were used before electronic calculators became prevalent.


What is CPU frequency?

There is insufficient information in the question to properly answer it. You need to specify which FPGA you are interested in. Please restate the question.


What would you do if you dident have spreadsheet?

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