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Before becoming adopted as a catch-phrase on TikTok, the term ‘flop’ was a short-hand for floating point operations per second. Floating point numbers are commonly known as “real” numbers ...

IEEE floating point numbers have just three parts – a sign, an exponent, and a fraction. While a 32-bit floating point number is capable of expressing numbers between 10^-38 and 10^38, with ...