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  2. Cycles per instruction - Wikipedia

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    The average of Cycles Per Instruction in a given process (CPI) is defined by the following weighted average: := () = () Where is the number of instructions for a given instruction type , is the clock-cycles for that instruction type and = is the total instruction count.

  3. United States Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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    The Consumer Price Index was initiated during World War I, when rapid increases in prices, particularly in shipbuilding centers, made an index essential for calculating cost-of-living adjustments in wages. To provide appropriate weighting patterns for the index, it reflected the relative importance of goods and services purchased in 92 ...

  4. Consumer price index - Wikipedia

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    A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...

  5. What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and why is it useful?

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    The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), which covers about 93 percent of the U.S. population, excluding those living in remote rural areas, farm households, institutions, or on ...

  6. Why the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is Important - AOL

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    The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an economic term you've probably heard before but may not know much about. Broadly speaking, the CPI measures the price of consumer goods and how they're trending.

  7. Cost-of-living index - Wikipedia

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    The United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a price index that is based on the idea of a cost-of-living index. The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) explains the differences: The CPI frequently is called a cost-of-living index, but it differs in important ways from a complete cost-of-living measure.

  8. It takes hundreds of people at Statistics Canada to compile CPI each month. This is how CPI is calculated. How Statistics Canada calculates inflation: A guide to understanding CPI

  9. Instructions per cycle - Wikipedia

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    The calculation of IPC is done through running a set piece of code, calculating the number of machine-level instructions required to complete it, then using high-performance timers to calculate the number of clock cycles required to complete it on the actual hardware.