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  1. floating-point number:


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floating-point number:

floating-point number [the ~] noun

  1. the floating-point number (floating point)
    – 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. 1

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nombre à virgule flottante floating point; floating-point number
virgule flottante floating point; floating-point number

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Related Definitions for "floating-point number":

  1. a number represented in floating-point notation2
  2. 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 2.1

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