4 ms·
One floating point operation per second One flops Two giga- floating point operations per second Two gigaflops
by letstryagain 11y ago
One floating point operation per second
One flops
Two giga- floating point operations per second
Two gigaflops
- mikeash 11y agoAcronyms get pluralized separately from their contents, though. You wouldn't say "two CPU" or "two SSD" or "two taser."
- Spivak 11y agoBut you would add an 's' to both of your examples to make two central processing units (CPUs) and two solid state drives (SSDs). I agree, it's a weird rule but it certainly sounds better. When the pluralization happens in the middle of the acronym it becomes weird -- one FLOPS, two FLOPsS?
- mikeash 11y agoBoth of my three examples? Anyway, you're right, they would all get an S at the end either way. A better example would be "captcha." You'd say "two captchas," not "two captcha" or "two captscha." For a less polite example that works the same way, consider MILF.
- FeepingCreature 11y agoSo ... Two gigaflosps?