Floating-point Definition

flōtĭng-point
adjective
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)
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Floating-point Sentence Examples

  • Be aware that floating point arithmetic is not exact; matrices that are theoretically equal are not always numerically equal.

  • Improvements were made to the boundary cases of floating-point arithmetic.

  • Each of these gets a chapter, along with a final chapter devoted to floating point arithmetic.

  • Introduction The basic assembler, as standard, does not have any support for true floating point instructions.

  • Note Value is a double-precision floating-point value that represents the Julian date.

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