In literature:
Astro flopped on his back in his bunk and went to sleep.
"Sabotage in Space" by Carey Rockwell
I flopped down promptly and began crawling about on the ground busily.
"August First" by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray
Every time By Gosh flopped an ear she thought he was trying to slap her in the face.
"I Married a Ranger" by Dama Margaret Smith
Never a flop of tail to indicate gratitude for blandishments, never the faintest symptom of canine appreciation.
"In Search of the Unknown" by Robert W. Chambers
Do you think it would be convenient if you had to flop yourself out on to the land every time you wanted a bite to eat?
"A Chinese Wonder Book" by Norman Hinsdale Pitman
One flopped so hard on landing that its tail rose in the air and it attempted a somersault.
"Space Tug" by Murray Leinster
You satisfy my tastes there entirely; you flow, but you don't flop.
"Franklin Kane" by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Make Your Ears Go, Flop!
"Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1" by Various
He dropped a large bull, which gave a convulsive flop and rolled into the water with a splash.
"The North Pole" by Robert E. Peary
Take the hook out of my mouth and don't make me flop.
"The Starbucks" by Opie Percival Read
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In poetry:
Or if he hung over the top,
He could go, but he never could stop;
For of course it is clear
He had no way to steer,
And under the wheel he would flop.
"A Bicycle Built For Two" by Carolyn Wells
Without rest or pause—while those frumious jaws
Went savagely snapping around-
He skipped and he hopped, and he floundered and flopped,
Till fainting he fell to the ground.
"The Hunting Of The Snark " by Lewis Carroll
And then his bark was stilled to a sigh
He flopped upon the floor;
But such a soft old mug am I
I threw awide the door;
So gaily, though the wind was high
We hiked across the moor.
"My Dog's My Boss" by Robert W Service
"Mornin'," I sez to 'im,
Gloomy, 'e seemed to be.
Glum an' unsociable. Comes in the shop
"Mornin'," I sez to 'im.
'E don't say anythin'.
"You're next," I sez; an' 'e sits with a flop.
"The Barber's Story" by C J Dennis
Grin on, Isham! Sing on, da'kies! But I flop my wings an' go
Fu' de sheltah of de ve'y highest tree,
Fu' dey 's too much close ertention--an' dey's too much fallin' snow--
An' it's too nigh Chris'mus mo'nin' now fu' me.
"Soliloquy Of A Turkey" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
I've flopped. It was the parson put me wise,
Before 'e left. I 'ad been full uv skite.
I was the 'ero uv the piece all right.
Me chest was out, me 'ead was twice the size
It used to be. I felt I was king-pin.
Did n't the papers 'ave me photer in?
"Narcissus" by C J Dennis
In news:
Robert Griffin III says roughing-the- passer penalty 'wasn't like a basketball flop.
Mitt Romney's Peevish , Prickly Debate Flop.
NBA will penalize players for flopping.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stop the flop.
Political Report, Wayne Greene: Fallin's flip-flop on SQ 762 perplexing .
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Until Steven D Green was charged with raping an Iraqi woman and killing her family, his life seemed as unremarkable as the flip-flops and Johnny Cash shirt he wore to court.
Heels, flats, flip-flops… some of the trendiest shoes can be the riskiest.
One of the greatest obstacles to Mitt Romney's quest for the presidency has been his reputation for incessant flip-flopping.
As usual, the 30-year-old Vikings punter is dressed down: a pair of brown flip-flops, black basketball shorts, and a baggy zip-up sweatshirt.
Buy five pairs of flip-flops and a quart of Barton vodka: It's time to go back to school.
When Robbie Keane flips, the Galaxy rarely flops.
Flopped by history, BMW's 2002 Turbo of 1974.
Rock opera a 'Flop of Ages'.
Jeans, flip-flops and sweatsuits would be among the items banned.
Rompers are casual as it is, so don't just throw on flip-flops.
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In science:
FLOPS/sec, extraction would take hundreds of hours.
Improved Volterra Kernel Methods with Applications to the Visual System
The simpler FLOPs (floating point operation per second) measure cannot be used here since no floating point operations are taking place except when the generated number is scaled back to [0,1[ range.
Using graphics processing units to generate random numbers
The figure assumes that each SP is capable of executing 3 FLOPs per cycle (one fused multiply-add on the SP and one multiply on the SFU).
Using graphics processing units to generate random numbers
The maximal achievable operations per second figure in our case is therefore one third of the maximum theoretical FLOPs figure.
Using graphics processing units to generate random numbers
Per Galactic crossing time (250 Myr) this code then requires about 106 operations per star, resulting in a few times 107N Flop for simulating the field population.
Towards Distributed Petascale Computing
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