: FLOPs, GIGAFLOPS, TERAFLOPS unit.

Question

I understand gigahertz, gigabytes, but not gigaflops.

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Answer 1

Let’s decipher what those letters mean – FLOPS – Floating Point Operations Per Second.

Floating Point is a type of number that processing unit can do calculations with. FP means it’s specially formated decimal value. In contrast to integers, it can be a value in very large range, from very small numbers to very large.

With flops we describe how many calculations with “decimal” numbers can a computer do.