浮ふ動どう小しょう数すう点てん方ほう式しき

noun

floating-point representation; floating decimal mode

Computing term for a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values by separating the significand and exponent.

• 浮ふ動どう小しょう数すう点てん方ほう式しきは、科か学がく計けい算さんで広ひろく使つかわれている。

  Floating-point representation is widely used in scientific computing.