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an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
this computer can perform a million flops per second
How To Use floating-point operation In A Sentence
- Based on data submitted so far, Mr. Dongarra said, the Sunway machine has "credible" sustained performance of about 795 teraflops--or trillion floating-point operations per second, a measure of scientific calculations based on standard tests. China Supercomputer Uses Homegrown Chips
- The number of sums that a computer can handle is measured by 'flops' (floating-point operations per second). Times, Sunday Times
- The chip performs extremely well on tasks where the instructions and data can be entirely cached and no floating-point operations are involved.
- In the 1980s, personal computers, for example, often contained separate processors for floating-point operations and integer operations.
- And these cameras are cheap, costing no more than a few hundred dollars despite the fact that each runs at more than 50 gigaflops 50 billion floating-point operations per second.
- The new chip is a parallel processor capable of performing 25 billion floating-point operations per second, or 25 gigaflops. Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer
