From a chart drawn up long ago by Los Alamos (lanl) using the data of the fastest current computer on the market at a given time, they found the equation for the number of operations per second was and it fit the data fairly well. Here time begins at 1943. In 1987 the extrapolated value predicted (by about 20 years!) was about 3 × 108 and was on target. The limiting asymptote is 3.585 × 109 for the von Neumann-type computer with a single processor.
