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floating point
Computer format for representing rational numbers
EntityQ117879
Also known as floating point number · float · floating point data type · floating point representation
- Subclass of
Overview
All data
28 statements · 14% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Represents
- rational number has characteristic: instances have exactly one value
- real number has characteristic: approximation
On other databases
21 identifiers linking floating point across the web's reference databases
- C64-Wiki IDFließkommaarithmetik
- De Agostini IDfloating+point
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/floating-point-calculation
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)3sYHId
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)31446
- Freebase ID/m/030r7
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDflyttall
- ISOCAT ID5517
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)floating-point-arithmetic
- MathWorld IDFloating-PointNumber
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)84211073
- NCI Thesaurus IDC48150
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1219877
- Open Library subject IDfloating-point_arithmetic
- OpenAlex IDC84211073
- OSDev article ID3097
- Quora topic IDFloating-Point
- Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica IDfloating-point
- UMLS CUIC1708071
- Valve Developer Community article IDFloating_point
- Zhihu topic ID19676006