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gigaFLOPS

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

gigaflops [′gig·ə‚fläps]

(computer science)

A unit of computer speed, equal to 10⁹flops.

(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.

See prefix.

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