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Time taken for Bruce Force Attack on DES

An attacker is equipped with a computer that performs 10 trillion (10^13) DES decryptions per second, what is the average time required, in hours, for a brute force attacker to break DES? Key size is 56 bits.

I tried 2^56/10^13 but the answer is incorrect.

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