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computer format for representing rational numbers
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floating point

Summary

floating point ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (679 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • floating point's subclass of is recorded as computer numbering format[2].
  • floating point's subclass of is recorded as number data type[3].
  • floating point's Commons category is recorded as Floating point[4].
  • floating point's has part is recorded as floating-point significand[5].
  • floating point's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/030r7[6].
  • floating point's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Floating point[7].
  • floating point's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1219877[8].
  • floating point's represents is recorded as rational number[9].
  • floating point's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/floating-point-calculation[10].
  • floating point's topic has template is recorded as Template:Floating-point[11].
  • floating point's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/floating-point[12].
  • floating point's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Float[13].
  • floating point's MathWorld ID is recorded as Floating-PointNumber[14].
  • floating point's Quora topic ID is recorded as Floating-Point[15].
  • floating point's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19676006[16].
  • floating point's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as floating-point-arithmetic[17].
  • floating point's Open Library subject ID is recorded as floating-point_arithmetic[18].
  • floating point's Open Library subject ID is recorded as floating_point_arithmetic[19].
  • floating point's Open Library subject ID is recorded as floating_point[20].
  • floating point's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as flyttall[21].
  • floating point's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 84211073[22].
  • floating point's De Agostini ID is recorded as floating+point[23].
  • floating point's Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID is recorded as floating-point[24].
  • floating point's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C84211073[25].
  • floating point's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 31446[26].

Why It Matters

floating point ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (679 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

floating-point unit

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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