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Problem Set #5

  • Exercise 2 p. 552. Quick Review Question 2 (p. 549) and its answers (p. 552) will help with this.
  • Exercise 5 p. 552
  • Exercise 3 p. 574. Show this result (speedup approaches p) algebraically and in a plot, with n on the horizontal axis and speedup on the vertical. Does your plot look like something we studied earlier in this course? Explain.
  • Exercise 10 p. 575 (Extra credit) . To get started, look at the lecture notes, previous exercise and its solution at the back of the book.