flops

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abbreviation for floating-point operations per second: a unit for measuring a computer's speed, based on how many of a particular type of mathematical operation it can do in a second:

FLOPS can be calculated using an equation.

The terms FLOPS and MFLOPS (megaFLOPS) were coined in order to be able to compare the performance of supercomputers.

abbreviation for Floating point Operations Per Second: a measurement of how quickly and effectively a computer works