Floating-point arithmetic
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Floating-point arithmetic
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In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base.
Numbers of this form are called floating-point numbers.
For example, 12.345 is a floating-point number in base ten with five digits of precision: 12.345 = 12345 ⏟ significand × 10 ⏟ base − 3 ⏞ exponent However, unlike 12.345, 12.3456 is not a floating-point number in base ten with five di
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Computer approximation for real numbers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic
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2001-11-11T18:56:25Z
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2024-08-29T23:00:17Z
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