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Where does “kiloflop” come from?

kiloflop (English) comes from English FLOP, from English floating-point operation — Alternative form of floating point operation.

kiloflop (English): A unit of computing power equal to 1,000 floating...

Definitions

  1. A unit of computing power equal to 1,000 floating...

Ancestry of “kiloflop”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishFLOPSynonym of flop
2Englishfloating-point operationAlternative form of floating point operation
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