floating-point operation
Noun

floating-point operation (plural floating-point operations)

  1. Alternative form of floating point operation#English|floating point operation
    • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi" ↗:
      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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