The logarithmic slide rule is a compact device for rapidly performing calculations with limited accuracy.
Sometimes an employee asks me if a time-consuming task of his — entering data, performing calculations on it and formatting it into reports, for instance — can be automated.
While digital computers are generally constrained to performing calculations serially, Adleman realized that he could take advantage of DNA molecules to perform a "massively parallel" calculation.
If built, it would be about twenty-five billiofths of a metre across, but it would be capable of performing calculations as complex as the programmer wished.
However, unlike transistors, the switches do not amplify electric signals, and a computer made of molecular switches would have to employ a different method for performing calculations, one that scientists are still working to devise.
By cleverly designing the inputs, outputs and thresholds, such a system can perform many different logical operations simultaneously offering, in the long run, the possibility of performing calculations far more quickly than conventional logic elements can.
The development of integrated circuits in the 1960s propelled a trend toward miniaturization in computer technology that has led to machines that are much smaller and less expensive than their predecessors yet are capable of performing calculations at much greater speeds.
The handling of this data is managed using a flag set by the performing calculations.
Optimisation of complementary shielding is carried out by performing calculations using MCNP code.
Current computer intelligence excels at depth calculation, performing calculations in seconds that would take you or me days.
Then, we highlight this vicinity performing calculations to determine the intertube equilibrium distance.
