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floating point
 floating point
comp., MS virgule flottante
| arithmetic
 arithmetic
gen. arithmétique

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floating point
comp., MS virgule flottante (A number represented by a mantissa and an exponent according to a given base. The mantissa is usually a value between 0 and 1. To find the value of a floating-point number, the base is raised to the power of the exponent, and the mantissa is multiplied by the result. Ordinary scientific notation uses floating-point numbers with 10 as the base. In a computer, the base for floating-point numbers is usually 2)
tech. ballonet; virgule flottante
 English thesaurus
floating-point [ˌfləʊtɪŋ'pɔɪnt, ˌfloʊt̬-]
abbr., IT flp
Floating Point
abbr., astronaut., mil. FP
floating point: 71 phrases in 7 subjects
Astronomy1
Computers10
General2
Information technology51
International Monetary Fund2
Microsoft3
Technology2