As for using FLOP as a plural noun, that’s how other units work. We use 5 m for 5 meters, 5 s for 5 seconds, 5 V for 5 volts, etc. so it’s not that weird.
This feels easier to me when writing and significantly harder for spoken language (where I have a strong inclination to add the s). I guess it’s probably worth thinking separately about talking vs writing, and this post is mostly about writing, in which case I’m probably sold.
In spoken language, you could expand the terms to “floating-point operations” vs “floating-point operations per second” (or just “operations (per second)” if that felt more apt)
As for using FLOP as a plural noun, that’s how other units work. We use 5 m for 5 meters, 5 s for 5 seconds, 5 V for 5 volts, etc. so it’s not that weird.
This feels easier to me when writing and significantly harder for spoken language (where I have a strong inclination to add the s). I guess it’s probably worth thinking separately about talking vs writing, and this post is mostly about writing, in which case I’m probably sold.
In spoken language, you could expand the terms to “floating-point operations” vs “floating-point operations per second” (or just “operations (per second)” if that felt more apt)