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• floating-point — [flōt′iŋ point΄] adj. designating or of a system of arithmetic, used esp. in computer science, having its numbers expressed in scientific notation (Ex.: 0.0003 becomes 3 × 10 4) * * * float·ing point (flōʹtĭng point ) adj. Of, relating to, or… …   Universalium

• 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

• floating-point — adjective Date: 1948 expressed in, using, or being a mathematical notation in which a number is represented (as in a computer display) by an integer or a decimal fraction multiplied by a power of the number base indicated by an exponent (as in… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• floating-point number — noun a) A number written in the form a x b e.g. 3.75 x 10. b) A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10, 16 or 256 depending on the computing system …   Wiktionary

• 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

• floating point — system in which a quantity is denoted by one number multiplied by a power of the number base …   English contemporary dictionary

• IBM Floating Point Architecture — IBM System/360 computers, and subsequent machines based on that architecture (mainframes), support a hexadecimal floating point format. The format is used by SAS Transport files as required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for New Drug… …   Wikipedia

• 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

• Base 36 — is a positional numeral system using 36 as the radix. The choice of 36 is convenient in that the digits can be represented using the Arabic numerals 0 9 and the Latin letters A Z. Base 36 is therefore the most compact case insensitive… …   Wikipedia