FLOPS. What is a FLOPS? It is the number of multiplications a computer can compute in one second, far less than additions, though not quite. It is the number of floating point operations a computer can compute in a single second. A floating point number has a bunch of digits (e.g. 12) times a power of ten. For example, most computers would have native trouble with the number 12345678901234546789012345, but they do well with approximations such as 1234567890 x 10^16. This means you lose some precision, i.e. accuracy, but you get the magnitude. Let’s not devolve into software that can handle very high precision numbers, or the precise representation of floating point numbers inside the computer. It is enough here to know that we are working with numbers having a fixed number of digits together with a power of ten. Let’s just talk about the FLOPS, floating point operations per second, of the native hardware. You know computers are fast, and expensive computers
Random thoughts and used ideas