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floating point
Floating point
A data type that represents real numbers, in contrast to integer numbers. A floating point number consists of two parts - a mantissa and an exponent. e.g. in 2.3E45, 2.3 is the mantissa and 45 is the exponent. The number represented by a floating point number is [mantissa] * 10^[exponent]. So in the example, 2.3E45 represents the number 2.3 * 10^45.[Edit this page] [Page history] [What links here] [Discuss this topic] [Printer Friendly]
