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floating_point

floating point

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floating point

  1. (mathematics) of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (the value of the digits) and characteristic (order of magnitude / the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 x 101
  2. (computing) of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers

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