It's interesting the MW says, >The flop in teraflop stands for “floating-point operation” Without noting that, in some circles, the 'p' is taken to mean 'per'

It's interesting the MW says, >The flop in teraflop stands for “floating-point operation” Without noting that, in some circles, the 'p' is taken to mean 'per', and only 'flops' is valid (Floating Point Operations Per Second), and the term is not a plural.