Floating Point
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In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) or floating point is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a significand (a signed sequence of a fixed number of digits in some base) multiplied by an integer power of that base; number of this form are called floating point numbers; e.g., 12.3461.
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Wikipedia. “floating point”. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic. (Accessed: ). ↩︎
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