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A flop is one of the elementary arithmetic operations $latex +$, $latex -$, $latex $, $latex /$ carried out on floating-point numbers. For example, evaluating the expression $latex (b - ax)/c$ takes three flops. A square root, which occurs infrequently in numerical computation, is also counted as one flop. As an example, the computation of…