17 Feb
2022
17 Feb
'22
4:14 p.m.
On 2022-Feb-16 17:40:18 -0500, Andrew Diller <dillera(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not only didn't it register on my Ryzen 3, it didn't even register on
2.11BSD running in simh on that box.
I did get a non-zero reading on an original RPi:
$ echo 99k2vp8opq | time dc > /dev/null
0.13 real 0.10 user 0.02 sys
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Peter Jeremy
On Feb 16,
2022, at 5:27 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Leah Neukirchen wrote:
I tried that on some of the systems I have at hand. It didn't even register on my
Mac.... Apparently it was a popular benchmark back in the
day:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V05.1.pdf
Yep.
> The benchmark was "echo 99k2vp8opq I
/bin/time dc > /dev/null’. It
> uses dc (the desk calculator) to calculate the square root of 2 to 99
> decimal places,