billion floating point operations per second
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mil millones de operaciones de punto flotante por segundo
- This new processor can reach ten billion floating point operations per second, making it one of the fastest available.
Examples
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The benchmark results showed the system achieved over one billion floating point operations per second during the test.
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Scientists use computers capable of several billion floating point operations per second to simulate complex physical phenomena.
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The new supercomputer can perform a staggering billion floating point operations per second.
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Can this processor handle billion floating point operations per second?
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Scientists use computers capable of several billion floating point operations per second to simulate complex physical phenomena.
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The benchmark results showed the system achieved over one billion floating point operations per second during the test.
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This new processor can reach ten billion floating point operations per second, making it one of the fastest available.
Synonyms
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A measure of computer speed equal to one billion calculations per second
A measure of computer speed for one billion math operations per second
How Fast
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Surface Forms
Morphology
billion + float + point + operation + per + second
The phrase is compositionally built: 'billion' (a number) modifies 'floating point operations' (operations on floating‑point numbers) and 'per second' indicates the rate, so the overall meaning — one billion such operations in one second — is directly derivable from the parts. Although 'floating point' is a technical term, the number+operation+per-time pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Billion floating point operations per second paints a simple picture: imagine a counter doing one billion tiny math operations per second, and floating point means numbers with a moving decimal point so the computer can handle very big or very small values. So, the phrase simply tells 'how fast' a computer can do many math steps in one second.