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Koomey's law

trend in the history of computing that the number of computations per unit energy dissipated doubles every 1.57 years
Thing Trend Q11981823

Facts

2 properties
Instance of
trend, rule of thumb[2]
Named after
Jonathan Koomey[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en Koomey's law es Ley de Koomey fr Loi de Koomey it Legge di Koomey ja クーメイの法則 zh 庫米定律
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Koomeys law graph, made by Koomey.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0h665t0
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2777144143
Quora topic ID
Koomeys-Law
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["PhysicalEffect", "KoomeysLaw"]

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rule of thumb
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Summary

Koomey's law is a trend[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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