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  • 1Floating Point Operations Per Second — (kurz FLOPS; englisch für Gleitkommaoperationen pro Sekunde) ist ein Maß für die Leistungsfähigkeit von Rechnersystemen[1] oder Prozessoren und bezeichnet die Anzahl der Gleitkommazahl Operationen (Additionen oder Multiplikationen), die von ihnen …

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  • 2Floating Point Operations per Second — (englisch für Gleitkommaoperationen pro Sekunde, Abk.: FLOPS) ist eine Maßeinheit für die Geschwindigkeit von Computersystemen oder Prozessoren und bezeichnet die Anzahl der Gleitkommazahl Operationen (Additionen oder Multiplikationen), die von… …

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  • 3floating-point — [flōt′iŋ point΄] adj. designating or of a system of arithmetic, used esp. in computer science, having its numbers expressed in scientific notation (Ex.: 0.0003 becomes 3 × 10 4) * * * float·ing point (flōʹtĭng point ) adj. Of, relating to, or… …

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  • 4floating-point — [flōt′iŋ point΄] adj. designating or of a system of arithmetic, used esp. in computer science, having its numbers expressed in scientific notation (Ex.: 0.0003 becomes 3 × 10 4) …

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  • 5Floating point — In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent …

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  • 6Floating-point unit — An Intel 80287 A floating point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication,… …

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  • 7Floating point unit — A floating point unit (FPU) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root. Some systems (particularly… …

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  • 8Decimal128 floating-point format — Floating point precisions IEEE 754: 16 bit: Half (binary16) 32 bit: Single (binary32), decimal32 64 bit: Double (binary64), decimal64 128 bit: Quadruple (binary128), decimal128 Other: Minifloat · Extended precision Arbitrary precision In com …

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  • 9Decimal32 floating-point format — Floating point precisions IEEE 754: 16 bit: Half (binary16) 32 bit: Single (binary32), decimal32 64 bit: Double (binary64), decimal64 128 bit: Quadruple (binary128), decimal128 Other: Minifloat · Extended precision Arbitrary precision In com …

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  • 10Decimal64 floating-point format — Floating point precisions IEEE 754: 16 bit: Half (binary16) 32 bit: Single (binary32), decimal32 64 bit: Double (binary64), decimal64 128 bit: Quadruple (binary128), decimal128 Other: Minifloat · Extended precision Arbitrary precision In com …

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