"hard float" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hard floats [plural]
Etymology: From hard (as in hardware) + float (as in floating-point number). Head templates: {{en-noun}} hard float (plural hard floats)
  1. (computing, programming) A hardware implementation of a floating-point number. Hypernyms: floating-point number, number Derived forms: hardfloat [adjective]

Inflected forms

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