Pointing out that the amount of computing power needed to simulate a nuclear blast is readily available from foreign companies, the industry is asking the government to remove the MTOPS power measurement that it uses in order to determine which computers may be sold to which countries.

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Finally, in what is probably the best, up-to-date measurement of national economic power, MIPS (millions of instructions per second), the United States share is 48% (Japan is second with 7% and Germany is third with 6%).

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Mr Cooper argues that inter-country variations in price and expenditure structure constitute an insurmountable obstacle to meaningful measurement of differences in the purchasing power of currencies.

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"As the most precise measurement of the cosmic ray positron flux to date, these results show clearly the power and capabilities of the AMS detector, " Ting said, according to the CERN statement.

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