floating-point operation

English

Noun

floating-point operation (plural floating-point operations)

1. Alternative form of floating point operation
   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:

     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.