floating point

See also: floating-point

English

Alternative forms

• floating-point

Adjective

floating point (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) 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.

   Meronyms: mantissa, significand, characteristic

2. (computing) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.

Antonyms

• fixed point

Derived terms

• floating point operation

Translations

computing

Chinese: Cantonese: 浮点 (fau4 dim2), 浮點 / 浮点 (fau4 dim2) Mandarin: 浮点 (zh) (fúdiǎn), 浮點 / 浮点 (zh) (fúdiǎn) Finnish: liukuluku- French: virgule flottante (fr) f German: Gleitkomma n Hungarian: lebegőpontos (hu) Japanese: 浮動小数点 (ふどうしょうすうてん, fudō shōsūten) Korean: 부동 소수점 (budong sosujeom) Polish: zmiennoprzecinkowy m Portuguese: ponto flutuante m Romanian: virgulă mobilă f Spanish: punto flotante m, coma flotante f Swedish: flyttal n

See also

• FLOP
• FLOPS

Further reading

• floating point on Wikipedia.Wikipedia