You are the head of a division of a big Silicon Valley company and have assigned one of your engineers, Jim, the job of devising an algorithm to sort through an English text of words and convert it into an Esperanto document. Jim comes up with an algorithm which takes bit operations to handle an input text with n words. Suppose the computers in your business can handle one bit operation every nanosecond ( nanosecond seconds).
(a) How many nanoseconds would it take Jim's algorithm to convert a text with words on these computers?

(b) How many HOURS would it take Jim's algorithm to convert a text with words on these computers?( Do not round your answers for WeBWorK.)

(Recall a million is , a billion is and a trillion is .)

For an input text of words, the statement that best describes the performance of Jim's algorithm is:







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