Megaflop vs Byte - What's the difference?
megaflop | byte |
(computing) a measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second.
(informal) A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure.
(computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
(computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits
In computing terms the difference between megaflop and byte
is that megaflop is a measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second while byte is a unit of computing storage equal to eight bits.megaflop
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(en noun)See also
*FLOPSbyte
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(en noun) (wikipedia byte)- The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.