Small wonder he was motivated to gamble: a quick cost-benefit calculation would have told him the chances of detection were slight compared with the bounties available.
By contrast, GPU processors are typically slower at carrying out each single calculation, but benefit from the ability to carry out several simultaneously.
When Bristol (nyse: BMY - news - people ) announced its restated earnings March 10, it apparently made a mistake in regard to the calculation of an income tax benefit.
Economist Alec Phillips of Goldman Sachs remarkably argues that benefit cessation would shave a half a percentage point of growth from the admittedly unreliable GDP calculation.