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FLOPS

Example: "The new processor's FPU can handle twice as many FLOPS as the previous version."

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FLOPS is an acronym that means "Floating Point Operations Per Second." FLOPS is a measurement unit that defines the number of floating point operations a processor can perform each second. It is a means of measuring the raw processor's floating point unit, or FPU.

First Published: 2009
Last Updated: January 28, 2009

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