Synonyms for Floating-point Notation (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 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):
floating-point representation system
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