Etymology

Grosch's law

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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

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