Floating point numbers are rational numbers because they can be represented as one integer divided by another.

Floating point data is similarly packed into a word and handled by library.

* Floating point unit

Floating point operations are mostly addition, subtraction, and multiplication with enough digits of precision to model continuous phenomena such as weather prediction and nuclear simulations.

Floating point was supported by peripheral options using various data formats.

* Floating point instructions

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Computers operate on a single Floating point number that is essentially constant from each input pixel.

Floating point operations other than ordered comparisons normally propagate a quiet NaN ( qNaN ).

Floating point operations on a signaling NaN ( sNaN ) signal an invalid operation exception, the default exception action is then the same as for qNaN operands and they produce a qNaN if producing a floating point result.

See floating point and IEEE Floating Point Standard.

* Floating point

Floating point became a focus for the America Project, and IBM was able to use new algorithms developed in the early 1980s that could support 64-bit double-precision multiplies and divides in a single cycle.

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Floating point arithmetic instructions were an available option ( if the divide option was installed ).

Floating point arithmetic was an available option, as were octal input / output, logical operations, and base conversion to / from decimal instructions.

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Floating point does not match the mathematical ideal of real numbers, so A has gradually lost its true orthogonality.

* Floating point numbers had a 1-bit exponent flag, a 10-bit exponent, a 1-bit exponent sign, a 48-bit magnitude, and a 4-bit sign " byte " in sign / magnitude format.

Netham Lock is the point at Netham in Bristol at which boats from the River Avon, gain access to Bristol's Floating Harbour.

Floating point numbers used a format with 7 bits of exponent ( power of 4 ) and 45 bits of mantissa.

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* Floating point

Floating vegetation is usually small although it may take up a large surface area in a wetland system.

Floating beds of papyrus may close up the channels to a width allowing only dugout canoes to pass.

Copley had also painted several large and heroic depictions of disasters at sea which Géricault may have known from prints: Watson and the Shark ( 1778 ), in which a black man is central to the action, and which, like The Raft of the Medusa, concentrated on the actors of the drama rather than the seascape ; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 ( 1791 ), which was an influence on both the style and subject matter of Géricault's work ; and Scene of a Shipwreck ( 1790s ), which has a strikingly similar composition.

Floating bladderworts in cold temperate zones such as the UK and Siberia can produce winter buds called turions at the extremities of their stems: as the autumnal light fails and growth slows down, the main plant may rot away or be killed by freezing conditions, but the turions will separate and sink to the bottom of the pond to rest beneath the coming ice until the spring, when they will return to the surface and resume growth.

A Deskbar can either be a fixed deskbar, which sits in the Windows Taskbar, or a Floating Deskbar, which may be positioned anywhere on the desktop.

Floating city may refer to:

* Truver, Scott C. " Floating Arsenal to be 21st Century Battleship.

* Floating Interactive Display: at least two commercial systems ( Heliodisplay and FogScreen ) offer interactive " floating interfaces " which display an image projected in mid-air but can be interacted with by finger similar to a touch screen.

Ozu's films were most favorably received from the late 1940s, with works such as Late Spring, 1949, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, 1952, Tokyo Story, 1953 — considered to be his masterpiece — Early Spring, 1956, Equinox Flower, 1958, his first film in colour, Floating Weeds, 1959 and Late Autumn, 1960.

The 54th and last chapter " The Floating Bridge of Dreams " is sometimes argued to be a separate part from the Uji part by modern scholars.

; Floating stairs: A flight of stairs is said to be " floating " if there is nothing underneath.

** Currently, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is once again being tolled ; because of the age of the bridge and its inability to withstand more than a 20-year storm, it is planned to be replaced by a new floating bridge in 2014.

Floating bridges can be vulnerable to inclement weather, especially strong winds.

Floating the plant in a large pool of water allowed the prototype to be rotated along its long axis to simulate a hard turn, accomplished by torquing large gyroscopes mounted forward of the reactor compartment.

Floating plants providing shade will also be welcomed by the species ; this is connected with the breeding of the fish.

Floating bundles of about 25 pieces of squared timber would be steered toward the upper end of the slide.

For example, the Floating leg of an interest rate swap can be " decomposed " into a series of forward rate agreements.

Bourne of Seale, a junior mage from the Floating School, meets Nepenthe in the library with a book inscribed with an unknown language, which seems to be written in configurations of plant thorns.

Barth, not unlike a fair number of other authors, has revealed himself to be embarrassed by his early unpublished work -- in his case, most work before The Floating Opera.

Floating depots were organized with medical, water, ammunition and food supplies, to be dispatched ashore when needed.

With the absence of The Aquabats ' formerly marketable ska sound, Goldenvoice had mixed feelings over Floating Eye, reportedly telling the band the album had no potential single material and would ultimately be difficult to promote.

As a very significant and momentous event, on May 20, 2011, Royal Dutch Shell announced the planned development of a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas ( FLNG ) facility, which will be situated 200 km off the coast of Western Australia and is due for completion in around 2017.

Floating islands are generally found on marshlands, lakes, and similar wetland locations, and can be many hectares in size.

The Xinzhuang will be the first line in Taiwan to adopt Floating Slab Track ( FST ) construction techniques to decrease noise and vibration when a train passes.

Floating rate medium-term notes can be as simple as paying the holder a coupon linked to Euribor +/- basis points or can be more complex structured notes linked, for example, to swap rates, treasuries, indices, etc.