Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun floating-point_representation_system

1 sense of floating-point representation system

Sense 1
floating-point notation, floating-point representation system -- (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)
       => mathematical notation -- (a notation used by mathematicians)