I hear it all the time in audio and video. They will say it's a 32-bit floating point. Or I'll here it when describing RAM or CPU.
2006-07-20 02:22:02 · 6 answers · asked by aplusjimages 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
The speed of CPU is measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS). It means that how many no. of floating operations a CPU can do in one second.
Normally floating operations involve mantissa operations (e.g. multiply 27556.345 with 98.00008). These operations take more processing power and extensive use of AND/OR gates (circuitry). So its critical to measure the speed in FLOPS.
2006-07-20 02:29:43 · answer #1 · answered by Tahir 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means that the decimal point of the number can "float" when computing information. Not just fixed (Say 16 bits in front of the point, and 16 bits behind the point). This just makes it a more efficient way to compute information.
2006-07-20 02:27:08 · answer #2 · answered by Christopher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Floating-point is a way of representing a subset of the real numbers in terms of an exponent, which is an integer, and a significand, which is a string of some chosen number of digits. Floating-point representation is very common because of computers, but it has its roots in scientific notation.
the site below goes into more detail.
2006-07-20 02:26:40 · answer #3 · answered by Gabe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Floating point is a faster way to deal with large number. For example, 1234567890 can be written as 1.23E9. There are other floating point system but all similar.
2006-07-20 02:29:36 · answer #4 · answered by Bruce__MA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 23:51:22 · answer #5 · answered by burley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
floating point is the most common representation today for real numbers on computers. read it yourself for a better understanding
http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html
2006-07-20 02:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by moonlightdancer_72 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋