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> 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
by 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