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Meaning of floating-point operation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Equivalents

Suomi liukulukuoperaatio

Examples

“The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

floating-point unit floatline floatmaker floatover floatovoltaics floatplane

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