Alternative form of floating point.

(mathematics) Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (also called significand, the value of the significant digits) and characteristic (order of magnitude / the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 × 10¹.

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

(computing) Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.

plural of floating-point unit

(computer hardware) A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but rather as a coprocessor if included at all.

plural of floating point operation

plural of floating-point number

plural of floating-point operation

Alternative form of floating point operation