floating-point operation
flop ,

The speed of floating-point operations is an important measure of performance for computers in many application domains.

Next said the 68040 performs a kind of mathematically intense operation called a floating-point operation about 10 times faster than the 68030.

As with fixed-point arithmetic, the results of some floating-point operations cannot be represented in the standard format.

A floating-point operation is a basic computer arithmetical task, like addition.

Computer performance can also be measured in floating-point operations per second, or flops.

If either of them is a floating-point number then a floating-point operation is used.

However, since the processor's intended markets do not typically make much use of floating-point operations, Sun does not expect this to be a problem.

The most powerful computer is rated at 41.1 million instructions a second and 13 million floating-point operations a second.

Perhaps a more important measure of speed is megaflops, or millions of floating-point operations per second.

It was capable of both fixed and floating-point operation.