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Definition: Floating-point Operation |
Floating-point OperationNoun1. An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Floating-point OperationSynonym: flop (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Floating-point Operation |
| Specialty definitions using "floating-point operation": underflow. (references) |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6C 6F 61 74 69 6E 67 2D 70 6F 69 6E 74      4F 70 65 72 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101100 01101111 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101101 01110000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01001111 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F l o a t i n g - p o i n t   O p e r a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006C 006F 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067 002D 0070 006F 0069 006E 0074      004F 0070 0065 0072 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40788167867580731582817580862498271846786758180 |

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