floating-point notation

Noun floating-point notation has 1 sense

• floating-point notation(n = noun.communication) 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;
is a kind of mathematical notation