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flotating point

flotating point is the misconstruction of floating point.

Meaning of floating point

Adjective

floating point (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.

Questions about flotating point

What is flotating point the misconstruction of?
Flotating point is the misconstruction of floating point.

Words near flotating point in the dictionary

  1. flotas
  2. flotate
  3. flotated
  4. flotates
  5. flotating
  6. flotating point
  7. flotation
  8. flotation collar
  9. flotation collars
  10. flotation cost
  11. flotation costs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flotating point (page history and authors); floating point (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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