Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/07/17:52:04
On Fri, 7 Feb 1997 13:09:05 +0200 (IST) Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
>
>On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Mr. Fuju wrote:
>
>> When designers measure computer speed, they measure it in flops...
>> mega-flops, tera-flops, etcs. What program do they use to come up
>with
>> those numbers? Could someone here write something that is
>comperable?
>
>A flop is a floating-point multiplication followed by a floating-point
>
>addition:
>
> double a, b, c;
> double d = a * b + c;
>
>Speed is measured in flops (or mega-flops, or tera-flops) PER SECOND,
>not
>in flops.
Actually, I think FLOPS stands for (FL)oating (O)perations (P)er
(S)econd.
There is no need to say flops per second.
If I'm wrong, don't flame me. I'm not 100% sure of this.
-Fwec
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