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FLOPS

Although floating point arithmetic is more complex than integer arithmetic, all floating point operations can be performed using integer arithmetic on the individual parts of the floating point representation.

The speed of floating point arithmetic is an important measure of performance for scientific computations. Floating point performance is measured in FLoating Operations Per Second (FLOPS).



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