11.   It can do this work at a speed of about half a teraflop, or half a trillion floating point operations, per second.

12.   Since these tasks involve keeping track of the position of the decimal point, they are called floating point operations, or flops.

13.   The flaw in the Pentium chip is in the so-called floating point unit, part of the hardware that handles complex arithmetic.

14.   The floating point unit is a portion of the chip that is used for extremely precise computations.

15.   The Pentium error occurs in a portion of the chip known as the floating point unit, which is used for extremely precise computations.

16.   Typically, the patches work by simply disabling the floating point unit of the Pentium chip.