• Look up floating in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Floating may refer to: a type of dental work performed on horse teeth use of an isolation tank the...
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    In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) in some base (or radix) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using a fixed-point value (called...
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    A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from several centimeters to a few meters. Sometimes referred...
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  • Floating city may refer to: Aberdeen floating village, Hong Kong Floating cities and islands in fiction, the use of artificial floating cities as a speculative...
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  • Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;...
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  • Floating rate may refer to: Floating interest rate Floating rate note Floating exchange rate This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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    Setun (Russian: Сетунь) was a computer developed in 1958 at Moscow State University. It was built under the leadership of Sergei Sobolev and Nikolay Brusentsov...
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  • The floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS), also known as a floating-gate MOS transistor or floating-gate transistor, is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect...
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    In macroeconomics and economic policy, a floating exchange rate (also known as a fluctuating or flexible exchange rate) is a type of exchange rate regime...
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  • The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic originally established in 1985 by the...
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    Samuel Shepherd (born 1986), known professionally as Floating Points, is a British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician. He is the founder of Pluto...
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    A floating-point unit (FPU), numeric processing unit (NPU), colloquially math coprocessor, is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out...
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  • Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations...
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  • A floating ground is a reference point for electrical potential in a circuit which is galvanically isolated from actual earth ground. Most electrical circuits...
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  • In semiotics and discourse analysis, floating signifiers (also referred to as empty signifiers, although these terms have been made distinct) are signifiers...
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  • Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it...
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  • Floating island of garbage or island of floating trash, could refer to: Garbage patch, a collection of floating detritus formed from trash coming together...
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    A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing...
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    A floating island or île flottante (French: [il flɔtɑ̃t]) is a dessert consisting of meringue floating on crème anglaise (a vanilla custard). The meringue...
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  • Floating licensing, also known as concurrent licensing or network licensing, is a software licensing approach in which a limited number of licenses for...
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  • Floating Power was a technology developed in the 1920s by the United States automobile firm Chrysler, credited mostly to the engineering of Owen Ray Skelton...
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  • In finance, a floating charge is a security interest over a fund of changing assets of a company or other legal person. Unlike a fixed charge, which is...
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  • A floating floor is a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor. The term floating floor refers to the installation method, but is...
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    or floating stairs, are a type of staircase. A cantilever is a beam, which is anchored at only one end. Thus cantilevered stairs have a "floating" appearance...
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    A floating airport is an airport built and situated on a very large floating structure (VLFS) located many miles out at sea utilizing a flotation type...
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    Hydrocotyle ranunculoides, known commonly as floating pennywort, or floating marshpennywort, is an aquatic plant in the family Apiaceae. It is native...
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  • computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern...
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    Riccia fluitans, the floating crystalwort, is an aquatic floating plant of the liverwort genus Riccia which is popular among aquarists as a retreat for...
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    A Floating City, or sometimes translated The Floating City (French: Une ville flottante), is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published...
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  • Lake Washington Floating Bridge may refer to the following crossings of Lake Washington between Seattle and its eastern suburbs: Lacey V. Murrow Memorial...
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