Interglot - "floating-point number" translated from English to German

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floating-point number:
- Gleitkomma
Wiktionary:
- floating-point number → Fließkommazahl, Gleitpunktzahl, Gleitkommazahl

English

Detailed Translations for floating-point number from English to German

the floating-point number (floating point)

– A number represented by a mantissa and an exponent according to a given base. The mantissa is usually a value between 0 and 1. To find the value of a floating-point number, the base is raised to the power of the exponent, and the mantissa is multiplied by the result. Ordinary scientific notation uses floating-point numbers with 10 as the base. In a computer, the base for floating-point numbers is usually 2. ¹
Gleitkomma
- Gleitkomma

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Gleitkomma	floating point; floating-point number	float

a number represented in floating-point notation²
A number represented by a mantissa and an exponent according to a given base. The mantissa is usually a value between 0 and 1. To find the value of a floating-point number, the base is raised to the power of the exponent, and the mantissa is multiplied by the result. Ordinary scientific notation uses floating-point numbers with 10 as the base. In a computer, the base for floating-point numbers is usually 2.¹

floating-point number

noun

floating-point number

noun

Informatik: Zahl mit einer variabel Anzahl von Ziffern und variabler Position des Dezimalkommas
- Gleitkommazahl → floating-point number
Informatik: annähernde Darstellung einer reellen Zahl
- Fließkommazahl → float; floating-point number