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  1. virgule flottante:


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virgule flottante:

virgule flottante

  1. virgule flottante (nombre à virgule flottante)
    the floating-point number; the floating point
    – A number represented by a mantissa and an exponent according to a given base. The mantissa is usually a value between 0 and 1. To find the value of a floating-point number, the base is raised to the power of the exponent, and the mantissa is multiplied by the result. Ordinary scientific notation uses floating-point numbers with 10 as the base. In a computer, the base for floating-point numbers is usually 2. 1

Translation Matrix for virgule flottante:

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floating point nombre à virgule flottante; virgule flottante
floating-point number nombre à virgule flottante; virgule flottante

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