floating-point

A form of floating point — Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (also called significand, the value of the significant digits) and characteristic (order of magnitude / the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 × 10¹.

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Meanings

adjectivefloating-point (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of floating point.
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