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FLOPS

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Also known as floating point operations per second

measure of computer performance

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Encyclopedic overview

Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance or compute in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.

For such cases, it is a more accurate measure than instructions per second.

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