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floating point

adj

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Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (also called significand, the value of…
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.
Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.

The neighborhood

antonymfixed point

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for floating point. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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