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> exaFLOP Nitpick: FLOPS (floating point operations per second) is singular. "FLOP" is "floating point operations per", which does not make sense. > https://e
by q-big 4y ago
> exaFLOP
Nitpick: FLOPS (floating point operations per second) is singular. "FLOP" is "floating point operations per", which does not make sense.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
- mort96 4y agoTo make it even more confusing, FLOP is sometimes used to mean "floating point operation", so it can be correct to say that a computation takes 1000 FLOPs. A machine with 2000 FLOPS would do 1000 FLOPs in half a second.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> To make it even more confusing, FLOP is sometimes used to mean "floating point operation" Yes, sometimes people use words wrongly. > so it can be correct to say that a computation takes 1000 FLOPs. No; that is incorrect, and it's unsurprising that ignorant misuse of technical terminology results in confusion.
- dekhn 4y agoThis has been true about FLOPs for decades; the term is ambiguous and there isn't "one right way" in this case. In written form I use FLOP/s and FLOPs