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floating point en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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. (not-comparable) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.

Forms

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floating-point alternative lexicographic

Antonyms

fixed point

Deriveds

floating point operation

Meronyms

mantissa · significand · characteristic

Relateds

FLOPS · FLOP

Translations (16)

ko 부동 소수점 (computing) · de Gleitkomma (computing) · ja 浮動小数点 (computing) · hu lebegőpontos (computing) · yue 浮点 (computing) · pl zmiennoprzecinkowy (computing) · es punto flotante (computing) · cmn 浮点 (computing) · fr virgule flottante (computing) · fi liukuluku- (computing) · pt ponto flutuante (computing) · sv flyttal (computing) · yue 浮點 /浮点 (computing) · ro virgulă mobilă (computing) · cmn 浮點 /浮点 (computing) · es coma flotante (computing)