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Glossary term

Floating-point operation (FLOP)

Also known as FLOP, Floating-point operation

What does "Floating-point operation (FLOP)" mean under the EU AI Act?

Any mathematical operation or assignment involving floating-point numbers, which are a subset of the real numbers typically represented on computers by an integer of fixed precision scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base

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Last updated: 22 August 2026.