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Record 1 2013-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Mathematics
DEF

A billion floating point operations.

OBS

giga: Ten to the ninth power, 1 000 000 000 in decimal notation. When referring to storage capacity, two to the thirtieth power, 1 073 741 824 in decimal notation.

OBS

Floating Point Operation (FLOP) ... describes a single manipulation of a floating point number in a microprocessor. One measure of the speed of a microprocessor is how many FLOPs can be accomplished in a second.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques informatiques
DEF

Un milliard d'opérations en virgule flottante.

CONT

[...] ordinateurs de grande puissance atteignant les dix gigaflops (moins d'un gigaflop à ce jour).

CONT

Le futur GF10 de Control Data devrait comporter huit processeurs. Cette machine devrait atteindre la puissance théorique de 10 GFlops, soit dix milliards d'opérations par secondes.

Spanish

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