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840 million flops?

How many Tera, giga or mega flops is this? I realize it's 10 to the 6, 9 and 12 but not too confident with my ability to get the reverse conversion of the exponential right. Thanks in advance! ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 08:07, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Ok I think I figured this out here [1] if I am reading this right 840 million flops = 840 mega flops?? ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 08:13, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Kilo = thousand
Mega = million
Giga = billion
Tera = trillion

So, 840 million flops = 840 megaflops. There can be a slight difference if we're doing a conversion involving binary and decimal, but it's around there, in any case. StuRat (talk) 08:15, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the confirmation StuRat! ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 10:25, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

1 megaflops = 1,000,000 flops exactly, see the table at FLOPS. (Binary prefixes are only used in some measurements of bytes or bits.) --Bavi H (talk) 19:49, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Microsoft Word and Excel

Let's say (hypothetically) that I am typing a document in Word. I just finished typing on page 20 of the document. Whenever I close the document and then subsequently re-open it, my cursor is always at the top of page 1. Is there any way to get the cursor to remain at some other location within the document (let's say, for example, at the bottom of page 20, where I had last been working)? Same question for Excel. Thanks! Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:51, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Try ⇧ Shift+F5 after opening the document. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:18, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I will try that and see what happens. But, is there a way to have it automatically open up at the last place that I was in the document? So that I don't have to do anything at all, other than my opening up the document. Is there some default setting somewhere that can be changed? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 01:02, 31 December 2012 (UTC)