[Hot Tabasco]

A flop is a floating point operation.

Well that's certainly good to know.........So if I decide to impress my circle of fellow retirees, how do I use it in a sentence that would make sense to them?

[Mycroft Holmes]

Well that's certainly good to know.........So if I decide to impress my circle of fellow retirees, how do I use it in a sentence that would make sense to them?

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"Ok, if your are programming computers there are two types of addition/subtraction you can do, Integer operations which are whole numbers with no fractional part or floating point numbers which do have a fractional part, e.g. 1.234

Integer operations typically take one cycle of the clock. Floating point operations take longer, depending on the hardware involved.

[adorno]

So if I decide to impress my circle of fellow retirees, how do I use it in a sentence that would make sense to them?

Just tell your friends about the biggest flop of all, Obama, and then tell them to imagine Obama 130 quadrillion times, but all in one second.