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📅 NSB 2015🎓 HS🔄 Round 5#️⃣ Q14❓ TOSS-UP✍️ Short Answer

When this question was written, the world's fastest computer was China's Tianhe-2 that can perform 3.4 x 10^16 computations per second. If it operates at 50% capacity and each calculation requires 10^-13 joules of energy, what is its operating power in watts and in scientific notation?

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