Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

floating-point number

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English

Syllables: float-ing--point num-ber
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).

noun

A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10, 16 or 256 depending on the computing system.

Inflected Forms

floating-point numbers (plural)

Antonyms

fixed-point number

Questions

What does floating-point number mean?: A number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).

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