floating point

Adjective

Meaning

(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 × 10.
Meronyms: mantissa, significand, characteristic

(computing) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.

floating-point (not comparable)

Alternative form of floating point.

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floating-point

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3DNow! was designed to be the natural evolution of MMX from integers to floating point. Source: Internet

A 64-bit float is sometimes called a "real64" or a "double", meaning "double-precision floating-point value". Source: Internet

A floating-point system can be used to represent, with a fixed number of digits, numbers of different orders of magnitude : e.g. the distance between galaxies or the diameter of an atomic nucleus can be expressed with the same unit of length. Source: Internet

A floating-point co-processor was also available, taking up a separate slot. Source: Internet

Alternatives to floating-point numbers The floating-point representation is by far the most common way of representing in computers an approximation to real numbers. Source: Internet

All registers are accessed through standard ARM architecture coprocessor mapping mechanism. iwMMXt occupies coprocessors 0 and 1 space, and some of its opcodes clash with the opcodes of the earlier floating-point extension, FPA. Source: Internet

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