floating-point number

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   a number represented in floating-point notation

   Broadernumber

Questions about floating-point number

What does floating-point number mean?

floating-point number means "a number represented in floating-point notation".

Is floating-point number a common word?

floating-point number 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.