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floating-point number

floating-point number noun: a number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).

Noun

floating-point number (plural floating-point numbers)

  1. A number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).
  2. A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10, 16 or 256 depending on the computing system.

Antonyms of floating-point number

Forms of floating-point number

pluralfloating-point numbers

Questions about floating-point number

What does floating-point number mean?
Floating-point number means a number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).
What part of speech is floating-point number?
Floating-point number is a noun.
What is the plural of floating-point number?
The plural of floating-point number is floating-point numbers.

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