What does "floating point" mean?

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.

Floating point

Q: What is a synonym for "floating point"?

Common synonyms include: decimal-based, float, float format, mantissa-exponent, numeric type, real value.

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Definitions

Adjective

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. not-comparable
2
Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers. not-comparable

Synonyms

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decimal-based float float format mantissa-exponent numeric type real value

Antonyms

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fixed point fixed point format fixed-point fixed-point type

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