zettaflop

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

zetta- +‎ FLOP

Noun[edit]

zettaflop (plural zettaflops)

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