That's a lot more calculations than the most powerful supercomputer in action today, which can do about 12 trillion operations per second.

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It's an equation I don't want to think about, one that neither the Norden bombsight or today's most powerful supercomputer can calculate.

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Tackling a Travelling Salesman Problem that has lots of locations with a supercomputer can take years because even the most powerful supercomputers use only a few thousand processors.

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