Grosch's law

English

Etymology

Attributed to computer scientist Herb Grosch in 1965, though previously stated by Seymour Cray.

Proper noun

Grosch's law

  1. (computing) The observation that computing power increases as the square of the cost, e.g. a computer that costs twice as much ought to be four times as fast.
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