English Explanatory Dictionary

floating point

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  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.

Word forms

floating point floating-point

Antonyms

fixed point

Related words

FLOP FLOPS

Derived words

floating point operation
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