floating-point representation

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• floating-point representation system — noun a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12 2 where 2 is the exponent • Syn: ↑floating point… …   Useful english dictionary

• Floating point — In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent …   Wikipedia

• floating-point notation — noun a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12 2 where 2 is the exponent • Syn: ↑floating point… …   Useful english dictionary

• Decimal floating point — Floating point precisions IEEE 754: 16 bit: Half (binary16) 32 bit: Single (binary32), decimal32 64 bit: Double (binary64), decimal64 128 bit: Quadruple (binary128), decimal128 Other: Minifloat · Extended precision Arbitrary precision… …   Wikipedia

• Decimal128 floating-point format — Floating point precisions IEEE 754: 16 bit: Half (binary16) 32 bit: Single (binary32), decimal32 64 bit: Double (binary64), decimal64 128 bit: Quadruple (binary128), decimal128 Other: Minifloat · Extended precision Arbitrary precision In com …   Wikipedia

• Decimal32 floating-point format — Floating point precisions IEEE 754: 16 bit: Half (binary16) 32 bit: Single (binary32), decimal32 64 bit: Double (binary64), decimal64 128 bit: Quadruple (binary128), decimal128 Other: Minifloat · Extended precision Arbitrary precision In com …   Wikipedia

• Decimal64 floating-point format — Floating point precisions IEEE 754: 16 bit: Half (binary16) 32 bit: Single (binary32), decimal32 64 bit: Double (binary64), decimal64 128 bit: Quadruple (binary128), decimal128 Other: Minifloat · Extended precision Arbitrary precision In com …   Wikipedia

• floating point — adjective a) of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (the value of the digits) and characteristic (the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 x 10 b) of the internal representat …   Wiktionary

• Quadruple-precision floating-point format — In computing, quadruple precision (also commonly shortened to quad precision) is a binary floating point computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) in computer memory. In IEEE 754 2008 the 128 bit base 2 format is officially… …   Wikipedia

• Double-precision floating-point format — In computing, double precision is a computer number format that occupies two adjacent storage locations in computer memory. A double precision number, sometimes simply called a double, may be defined to be an integer, fixed point, or floating… …   Wikipedia

• Fixed-point arithmetic — In computing, a fixed point number representation is a real data type for a number that has a fixed number of digits after (and sometimes also before) the radix point ( e.g. , after the decimal point . in English decimal notation). Fixed point… …   Wikipedia