Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grosch's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: grosch's law
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The observation that computing power increases as the square of the cost, e.g. a computer that costs twice as much ought to be four times as fast.

Etymology

Attributed to computer scientist Herb Grosch in 1965, though previously stated by Seymour Cray.

Questions

What does grosch's law mean?: The observation that computing power increases as the square of the cost, e.g. a computer that costs twice as much ought to be four times as fast.
Where does grosch's law come from?: Attributed to computer scientist Herb Grosch in 1965, though previously stated by Seymour Cray.

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