"flotating point" meaning in English

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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:",
          "text": "The drawback is that it's kinda slow; a high bailout value (required to get the range) forces one to use the flotating point algorithm.",
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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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          "ref": "2000 September 2, Ian McCulloch, “Performance in comparison to Java”, in comp.lang.c++.moderated (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05:",
          "text": "This makes Java (even with a native compiler) essentially useless for any flotating point applicatations, numerics, games, etc etc etc. Of course, this was last time I checked. Sun might have seen the light since then.",
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