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'''Floating point operations per second''' ('''FLOPS''', '''flops''' or '''flop/s''') is a measure of [[computer performance]] in [[computing]], useful in fields of scientific computations that require [[floating-point]] calculations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Understand measures of supercomputer performance and storage system capacity |url=https://kb.iu.edu/d/apeq |website=kb.iu.edu |access-date=23 March 2024}}</ref>
 
For such cases, it is a more accurate measure than [[instructions per second]],.{{cn|date=March because a floating point operation can require different numbers of instructions on different machines.2024}}
 
==Floating-point arithmetic==