Based on the scatterplot and computer output, a reasonable estimate for the number of computations
performed per second by the largest supercomputer in
2007 is:
One method used to measure the speed of
supercomputers is the number of floating-point
mathematical operations the computer can perform in
one second. This is often referred to by the acronym
FLOPS. For many years since 1992, the number of
FLOPS performed by the largest supercomputer
available that year was recorded, and the natural log of
each value of the response variable taken.