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