Thursday, December 27, 2012

Do You Know: How to calculate the distance (in meters) that light travels in one processor cycle.

Below are the variables known:

speed_of_light = 299792458.0 #meters per second
cycles_per_second = 2700000000.0 #2.7GHz

cycle_distance
= speed_of_light / cycles_per_second
= 299792458.0 / 2700000000.0
= 0.1110342437037 cycles per second

Source of study: Udacity | CS101 - Quiz 7: Variables

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