"Basically I had an intense 20 minutes of discomfort that was paid back a hundredfold, " he says.

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And he projected this into Bell's Law: Every ten years you get a hundredfold increase in computing capabilities.

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Every ten years there is a hundredfold drop in the cost of computing, leading to a new paradigm in computing.

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Every 10 years there is a hundredfold drop in the cost of computing, leading to a new paradigm in computing.

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One of its founders who chipped in an undisclosed amount in 1998 saw his ante jump a hundredfold, says Tom J.

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Any conceivable tax would fall far short of equating to a hundredfold mark-up, and would in any case be emasculated by smuggling.

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"Whatever I was suffering onstage, my family -- Mom in particular -- went through it a hundredfold in their seats, " Miller said.

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The returns from education are distinctly less than a hundredfold.

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Taking a huge risk as additional trials ensued, Novartis boosted production a hundredfold, going from making merely kilograms in a complicated 12-step process to producing tonnes at its plant in Ringaskiddy, Ireland.

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The typical big-business database has grown in size a hundredfold in the past five years, bloated by the sprawl of computing systems and applications, Internet commerce and recordkeeping mandated by government regulation.

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That hundredfold growth, however, seems unlikely to continue.

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