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Floating-point Operation

Definition: Floating-point Operation

Floating-point Operation

Noun

1. 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 Operation

Synonym: flop (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Floating-point Operation

Specialty definitions using "floating-point operation": underflow. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: Floating-point Operation


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

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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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