"floating point" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adjective|-}} floating point (not comparable)
  1. (mathematics) 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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-floating_point-en-adj-74c4FyTb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 82 18 Topics: mathematics, sciences
  2. (computing) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Computing Translations (computing): 浮点 (fau⁴ dim²) (Chinese Cantonese), 浮點 (Chinese Cantonese), 浮点 (fúdiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 浮點 (Chinese Mandarin), liukuluku- (Finnish), virgule flottante [feminine] (French), Gleitkomma [neuter] (German), lebegőpontos (Hungarian), 浮動小数点 (fudō shōsūten) (alt: ふどうしょうすうてん) (Japanese), 부동 소수점 (budong sosujeom) (Korean), zmiennoprzecinkowy [masculine] (Polish), ponto flutuante [masculine] (Portuguese), virgulă mobilă [feminine] (Romanian), punto flotante [masculine] (Spanish), coma flotante [feminine] (Spanish), flyttal [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-floating_point-en-adj-L~smDJuL Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'computing': 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: floating-point Derived forms: floating point operation Related terms: FLOP, FLOPS

Alternative forms

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