trillion floating point operations per second
- noun
- Specialized
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billón de operaciones de punto flotante por segundo
- Modern graphics cards can now exceed several trillion floating point operations per second during intensive calculations.
Examples
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The new supercomputer can achieve trillion floating point operations per second.
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The new supercomputer is capable of performing over five trillion floating point operations per second.
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Achieving one trillion floating point operations per second was once considered a major milestone in computing.
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How many trillion floating point operations per second does it perform?
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Many supercomputers can perform over a hundred trillion floating point operations per second.
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The new graphics card boasts a processing speed of 10 trillion floating point operations per second.
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In benchmarks, this machine achieved a peak performance of 50 trillion floating point operations per second.
Synonyms
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A measure of computer speed equal to one trillion calculations per second
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
trillion + float + point + operation + per + second
The phrase is largely compositional — 'trillion', 'operations' and 'per second' clearly indicate a very large rate of calculations — but the key element 'floating-point' is a technical computing term whose meaning is not a straightforward combination of 'float' + 'point' for an average B1 learner. A learner who knows ordinary senses of the constituents may grasp that this refers to many calculations per second but may not infer the precise technical sense (floating‑point arithmetic), so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase trillion floating point operations per second comes from counting tiny computer calculations. A floating point operation is a simple math step with decimal numbers and trillion tells how many of those steps happen in one second, so the phrase, often called 'teraflop', means 'how fast a computer can do math'.