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zettaflop

zettaflop noun: 10²¹ floating-point operations per second.

Noun

zettaflop (plural zettaflops)

  1. 10²¹ floating-point operations per second.
    • The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.2008 June 9, John Markoff, “Military Supercomputer Sets Record”, in New York Times

Forms of zettaflop

pluralzettaflops

Origin of zettaflop

From zetta- + FLOP.

Questions about zettaflop

What does zettaflop mean?
Zettaflop means 10²¹ floating-point operations per second.
What part of speech is zettaflop?
Zettaflop is a noun.
What is the plural of zettaflop?
The plural of zettaflop is zettaflops.

Words near zettaflop in the dictionary

  1. zettaamperes
  2. zettabit
  3. zettabits
  4. zettabyte
  5. zettabytes
  6. zettaflop
  7. zettaflops
  8. zettagram
  9. zettagrammes
  10. zettagrams
  11. zettahertz

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