Counting the oscillations, quadrillions per second, lets scientists calculate the time.
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They number in the quadrillions, and may be the most numerous vertebrates on Earth.
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We could go on to quadrillions and quintillions, but that's a whole other story.
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The IRS's computer power is now measured in petabytes — quadrillions of bits of information.
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The answer he got back: 1 in 200 quadrillions, or a 0.0000000000000000000000000204 percent chance.
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Running it means performing quadrillions of mathematical operations a second—hence the need for supercomputers.
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Slowly, you'll amass quadrillions of dollars, as you merge one cat into another, creating increasingly rare cats.
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Right now, the fastest supercomputers in the world can make quadrillions — or thousands of trillions — calculations each second.
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It took eight hours and hundreds of quadrillions of collisions—that's 1017—to produce one single sodium-39.
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There are likely billions, if not trillions or quadrillions, of humans who could live in the future, provided we don't go extinct.
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The shift from dealing with thousands of something to quadrillions to decillions in the game takes forever, and then happens all at once.
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But calculations like these only need between five to 15 digits to be accurate, and we currently know pi to quadrillions of digits.
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If you care about improving human lives, you should overwhelmingly care about those quadrillions of lives rather than the comparatively small number of people alive today.
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Hence, the chatter about AI. If it causes human extinction, then billions, trillions, even quadrillions of future humans who otherwise would have lived happy lives won't.
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It's reasonable to suggest that those quadrillions of future people have, accordingly, hundreds of thousands of times more moral weight than those of us living here today do.
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Don't worry: At the current rate, it would take quadrillions of years for Earth to evaporate completely, millions of times longer than the expected lifetime of the sun.
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Reader, as you read these words, trillions of microbes and quadrillions of viruses are multiplying on your face, your hands and down there in the darkness of your gut.
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But research suggests that a solution to Cape Town's looming crisis — quadrillions of liters of fresh water — may be sitting practically beneath the city's feet, and it's going entirely untapped.
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The other three quarters are cars and trucks using gasoline, factories using quadrillions of British thermal units to forge metals and refine petroleum, and buildings heated by gas or propane.
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It was to be a PlayStation exclusive that would let players fly their way through a galaxy made up of quadrillions of stars, each orbited by fully realized, randomly generated planets.
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The scale of supercomputing has grown almost too large to comprehend, with millions of compute units performing calculations at rates requiring, for first time, the exa prefix — denoting quadrillions per second.
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We might spend some time on threats like superbugs and nuclear war that could end humankind altogether and prevent trillions or quadrillions of humans from enjoying happy lives in the future.
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And let's not forget Dutch children dropped off in the midnight woods; Finnish girls who blur the line between hobbyhorses and the real thing; and Japanese students who can count into the quadrillions, at the snap of a finger, thanks to their expert abacus skills.
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You can't fly the endless skies with your pals, but there is an online component because players upload their discoveries to the No Man's Sky servers to track their exploration That means there's a (slim) chance you could find a planet among the quadrillions that someone else has already discovered previously.
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When a volcano erupts, it might take out some neighboring towns and mess with air traffic, but a supervolcano—a volcano that ejects material (ejecta) on the order of quadrillions of kilograms—can be expected to spread pyroclastic flows for hundreds of miles and dump ash even further out than that.
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In 2007, NCSA was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to build "Blue Waters", a supercomputer capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second, a level of performance known as petascale.
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This is the number that is used to rank the computers. Measured in quadrillions of floating point operations per second, i.e. petaflops. of 124.0 GFlop/s and a RpeakRpeak – This is the theoretical peak performance of the system. Measured in Pflops.
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They are one of the oldest, most widespread and persistent of the Imperium's enemies and even outnumber the quadrillions strong humanity as a species, making them the most numerous species in the galaxy. Their simplistic personalities, reckless tactics and ramshackle technology make them the comic relief characters of the setting.
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The books also wrestle with the idea of individualism. Hari Seldon's plan is often treated as an inevitable mechanism of society, a vast mindless mob mentality of quadrillions of humans across the galaxy. Many in the series struggle against it, only to fail. However, the plan itself is reliant upon the cunning of individuals such as Salvor Hardin and Hober Mallow to make wise decisions that capitalize on the trends.
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The Gonostomatidae are a family of mesopelagic marine fish, commonly named bristlemouths, lightfishes, or anglemouths. It is a relatively small family, containing only eight known genera and 32 species. However, bristlemouths make up for their lack of diversity with numbers: Cyclothone, with 12 species, is thought to be (along with Vinciguerria) the most abundant vertebrate genus in the world, numbering in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions. The fossil record of this family dates back to the Miocene epoch.
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In 2006, the University of Michigan's School of Information began a study of TeraGrid. In May 2007, TeraGrid integrated resources included more than 250 teraflops of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes (quadrillions of bytes) of online and archival data storage with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance networks. Researchers could access more than 100 discipline-specific databases. In late 2009, The TeraGrid resources had grown to 2 petaflops of computing capability and more than 60 petabytes storage.
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Similarly, people are often more concerned about threats to individuals than to larger groups. There are economic reasons that can explain why so little effort is going into existential risk reduction. It is a global good, so even if a large nation decreases it, that nation will enjoy only a small fraction of the benefit of doing so. Furthermore, the vast majority of the benefits may be enjoyed by far future generations, and though these quadrillions of future people would in theory perhaps be willing to pay massive sums for existential risk reduction, no mechanism for such a transaction exists.
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The bristlemouth could be the Earth's most abundant vertebrate, with numbers in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions. Mesopelagic fish are difficult to study due to their unique anatomy. Many of these fish have swim bladders to help them control their buoyancy, which makes them hard to sample because those gas-filled chambers typically burst as the fish come up in nets and the fish die. Scientists in California have made progress on mesopelagic fish sampling by developing a submersible chamber that can keep fish alive on the way up to the surface under a controlled atmosphere and pressure.
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Those were the good days. Driven by an abundance of materials, a demand for consumer goods and the military–industrial complex, humanity expanded into the cosmos at a break-neck pace. Star system after star system was colonized and terraformed, asteroid belts were carved up for their vast stores of vinyl, and factories the size of planets churned out a bewildering array of products that the teeming quadrillions swarmed over like ants in a sugar bowl. But it couldn't last; the stream of mega-transports that once moved trillions of tons daily now only moved billions, and then millions, and finally slowed to almost a trickle.
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These magnetic fields are hundreds of thousands of times stronger than any man-made magnet, and quadrillions of times more powerful than the field surrounding Earth. As of 2003, they are the most magnetic objects ever detected in the universe. On 5 March 1979, after dropping probes into the atmosphere of Venus, Venera 11 and Venera 12, while in heliocentric orbits, were hit at 10:51 am EST by a blast of gamma ray radiation. This contact raised the radiation readings on both the probes Konus experiments from a normal 100 counts per second to over 200,000 counts a second, in only a fraction of a millisecond.
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The First Order employs a quality-over-quantity philosophy with its soldiers and personnel. Unable to conscript quadrillions of soldiers to fill its Stormtrooper ranks, yet unwilling to invest huge resources in breeding a rapidly produced clone army, First Order Stormtroopers are kidnapped from their homeworlds and trained from birth, raised their entire lives for no other purpose. First Order soldiers and crews have constantly trained for combat in war games and simulations, making them much more effective one-on- one than the endless waves of Stormtrooper conscripts fielded by the old Empire. First Order Stormtroopers are regularly put through mental indoctrination and propaganda programs, to make sure that they remain fanatically loyal and never hesitate or question orders.
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L. Ron Hubbard in 1950, around when he developed Scientology Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard included space opera narratives in his writings, wherein thetans (the name given to human souls) were reincarnated periodically over quadrillions of years, retaining memories of prior lives, to which Hubbard attributed complex narratives about life throughout the universe. The most controversial of these myths is the story of Xenu, to whom Hubbard attributed responsibility for many of the world's problems. Some space opera doctrines of Scientology are only provided by the church to experienced members, who church leaders maintain are the only ones able to correctly understand them. Several former members of the church have exposed these secret documents, leading to lengthy court battles with the church, which failed to keep the secret.
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The critics Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith argue that the image provides "an explicit link between heaven and earth ... to suggest a cosmic resonance between sacred and profane, celestial and terrestrial, macrocosm and microcosm." Illustration "May-Flies in Sunset Dance" by Philip Henry Gosse in a Victorian edition of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne In his 1789 book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, Gilbert White described in the entry for "June 10th, 1771" how The mayfly has come to symbolise the transitoriness and brevity of life. The English poet George Crabbe, known to have been interested in insects, compared the brief life of a newspaper with that of mayflies, both being known as "Ephemera", things that live for a day: The theme of brief life is echoed in the artist Douglas Florian's 1998 poem, "The Mayfly". The American Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur's 2005 poem "Mayflies" includes the lines "I saw from unseen pools a mist of flies, In their quadrillions rise, And animate a ragged patch of glow, With sudden glittering".
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