"flotating point" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} flotating point (not comparable)
  1. (nonstandard and non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of floating point. Tags: alt-of, misconstruction, not-comparable Alternative form of: floating point Categories (topical): Computing, Mathematics
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          "ref": "1991 June 25, David M. Read, “3D M sets in Fractint: the *real* solution”, in alt.fractals (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05:",
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          "ref": "1995 September 7, Bengt-Inge DalenbŠck, “TopSpeed-Borland-Windows-DLLs”, in comp.lang.modula2 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05:",
          "text": "MATHLIB has a problem if e.g. Sin() or, for what it seems, any other MATHLIB function is called repeatedly in a loop. In such cases a register is trashed (the one used for the loop variable) and the loop is terminated prematurely. However, if MATHLIB functions are called one at a time in the middle of the code it all works fine, and even after an huge amount of flotating point calculations (and I mean hours worth of it) the final results are identical to the Xtd DOS program's (also the speed is nearly identical).",
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