What is the speedup factor in parallel computing?

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What is the speedup factor in parallel computing?

The speedup factor in parallel computing refers to the ratio of the time taken to execute a task on a single processor (sequential execution) to the time taken to execute the same task on multiple processors (parallel execution). It measures the improvement in performance achieved by parallelizing a computation.