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A 'number crunching' computer is one that can handle _______________.

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Large spreadsheets
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Large alphanumeric data
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Large volume of numbers
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Only numbers
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None of the above
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The correct option is C Large volume of numbers

A 'number crunching' computer is one that can handle a Large volume of numbers.

a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.

The number of bits on a computer hard disk (as of 2010, typically about 1013, 500–1000 GB) The estimated number of atoms in the observable universe (1080) Earth's mass consist of about (4x1051) nucleons. The number of cells in the human body (more than 1014)

The number 2,147,483,647 (or hexadecimal 7FFF,FFFF16) is the maximum positive value for a 32-bit signed binary integer in computing. It is therefore the maximum value for variables declared as integers (e.g., as int ) in many programming languages, and the maximum possible score, money, etc. for many video games.

A googol, for example, is 10^100, which has 101 digits. The largest known prime number has over 17 million digits. A googolplex is 10 raised to the googol power, so it has approximately a googol digits.


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