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FLOATING-POINT NOTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating-point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12-2 where -2 is the exponent
Synonyms:
floating-point notation; floating-point representation system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("floating-point notation" is a kind of...):
mathematical notation (a notation used by mathematicians)
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