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One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second?

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Let's find out how well you know computers! All of these programs have a variable NUMBER in them. Your mission: guess how big NUMBER needs to get before the program takes 1 second to run.

Let's find out how well you know computers! All of these programs have a variable NUMBER in them. Your mission: guess how big NUMBER needs to get before the program takes 1 second to run. You don't need to guess exactly: they're all between 1 and a billion. Just try to guess the right order of magnitude! A few notes: If the answer is 38,000, both 10,000 and 100,000 are considered correct answers. The goal is to not be wrong by more than 10x :) We know computers have different disk & network & CPU speeds! We're trying to get you to tell the difference between code that can run 10 times/s…

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