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Some people treat FLOPS as “FLoating point OPerationS”.
by kortilla 2y ago
Some people treat FLOPS as “FLoating point OPerationS”.
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- seanw444 2y agoThen it should be "FLOPs" to indicate that the S is not separate word in the acronym, just the plural form.
- jonhohle 2y agoIt’s not an acronym, it’s an abbreviation. Unfortunately, the rules for abbreviations are effectively arbitrary (or specific to some etymology that’s not available from context). The “s” could be op(s) or seconds, but back in 90s trade publications it was seconds.
- vel0city 2y agoBut that doesn't make much sense in comparison to evaluating system performance. A Pentium III could have a billion FP32 operations given almost 16 years, but you wouldn't say its 1 GFLOPS. Assuming the "S" is seconds, it becomes a useful metric and we can say it has 2 FLOPS.