floating-point notation

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsfloating-point representation system

   Broadermathematical notation

Questions about floating-point notation

What does floating-point notation mean?

floating-point notation means "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".

What is another word for floating-point notation?

Close synonyms include floating-point representation system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is floating-point notation a common word?

floating-point notation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.