ext_54424 ([identity profile] rabbit1080.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] stephbg 2010-02-18 01:56 am (UTC)

yay for feeling inspired :-)

Have some Prefixes for biiiig numbers, incl. "peta-"

In computing, a "FLOPS" is a measure of processor speed - "floating-point operations per second". This doesn't specify which particular operations, nor does it consider various aspects of computer architecture (eg. bus speed, pipelining operations, memory-access speed, caching....). Not bad for a ballpark figure though.

I would combine these into a working definition of "petaflops" but i'm watching the snowboarding, and anyway the word is reminding of rabbits' ears for some reason.

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