floating point

== English == === Alternative forms === floating-point === Adjective === floating point (not comparable) (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 (computing) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers. ==== Antonyms ==== fixed point ==== Derived terms ==== floating point operation ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== FLOP FLOPS === Further reading === floating point on Wikipedia.Wikipedia