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gigaFLOPS

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(GIGA FLoating point OPerations per Second) One billion floating point operations per second. See FLOPS.

(unit)gigaflops - (GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point operations per second.

One of them is strictly "one gigaflops" in the same way that one mile per hour isn't 1 MP.

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