floating-point operation

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floating-point operation

noun floating-point operations

alternative Alternative form of floating point operation The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.

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@misc{floating_point_operation_2026,
  title = {floating-point operation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/floating-point%20operation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}