floating point

floating point

English

Alternative forms

• floating-point

Adjective

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

Antonyms

• fixed point

Derived terms

• floating point operation

Translations

computing

Finnish: liukuluku- 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 susojeom)

Polish: zmiennoprzecinkowy m Portuguese: ponto flutuante m Romanian: virgula mobilă f Spanish: punto flotante m Swedish: flyttal n

See also

• FLOP
• FLOPS