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floating-point

adjective

Meaning

  1. Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (also called significand, the value of the significant digits) and characteristic (order of magnitude / the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 × 101.
  2. Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

floating point(English)flotating point(English)fixed-point(English)decimal(English)fixed point(English)rounded down(English)decimalic(English)superparticular(English)

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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