Figure 16 Comparison between various implementations of clique weight gossiping core functions: message load (a) and slowdown factor (b) versus gossiping frequency.
In the bottom right panel we plot the slowdown factor as a function of word-length (L_{mathrm{w}}), for a fixed tolerance of 10−10.
In the bottom left panel we plot the slowdown factor as a function of the Bulirsch-Stoer tolerance ϵ, for a fixed word-length of 1,024 bits.
The housing market continues to show signs of a slowdown, another factor that could encourage the Federal Reserve to delay further rate increases.
If we compare methods A and B, in this order, the selectiveness improvement (SI) is the quotient between the selectiveness of B and the selectiveness of A. Accordingly, we define the speedup factor (SU) of the algorithm to be the quotient between the running time spent by A and the running time spent by B. We also define the slowdown factor (SD) to be the inverse of the speedup factor.
Another slowdown factor: the huge government investments in high-speed rail and other infrastructure, which played a central role in China's swift recovery in 2009 from the global economic downturn, have begun to level off.
The factor of 2.64 in the fourth term comes from the multiplication of 0.33 and 8, where 8 is the slowdown factor of the solar wind in the subsolar magnetosheath (Spreiter and Stahara 1980; Khan and Cowley 1999).
Using a very long word-length of 4,096 bits, i.e. ∼103 digits, results in a slowdown of a factor (f_{mathrm{s}} sim16) compared to 64 bits.
But for some simulations a BS tolerance smaller than 10−50 can easily be required to reach convergence, and this will result in a slowdown of a factor (f_{mathrm{s}} > 100).
The income stagnation of the last decade stems, in the simplest terms, from two factors: a slowdown in economic growth and a rise in inequality, which has concentrated the economy's modest gains among a small share of the population.
