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Definition of Floating-point operation
1. Noun. An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers. "This computer can perform a million flops per second"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floating-point Operation
Literary usage of Floating-point operation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. U. S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's edited by Christopher Cox (1999)
"... was rated at one million floating point operations per second (MFLOPS) while
Cray's processors were rated at 200 MFLOPS.270 A floating-point operation ..."
2. Mastering C++ by K. R. Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, T. Ravishankar, Shaduli Vanimal (muhammad Ali Shaduli) (1997)
"... statement c6 = c4 + c5; // floating addition performs floating-point operation
on complex objects. Review Questions 16.1 What is generic programming ? ..."
3. Competing Economies: America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim by 52003012600, Office of Technology Assessment, United States, Congress (1991)
"... in megaflops and gigaflops, which are one million and one billion floating-point
operations per second, respectively. A floating-point operation is one ..."
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