English noun: floating-point representation system | |||
| 1. | floating-point representation system (communication) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | floating-point notation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mathematical notation | ||