What is a floating point?
Despite its concrete sounding name, the floating point is something that does not exist technically. People cannot prove their existence, yet they are used millions a day in computer operations. How and why this happens is fascinating to many people.
The floating point is a number in its heart. From a technical point of view it is a digital representation of the number, approximation of the actual number. However, there is no numeric lines or on the website of mathematics textbooks. Floating points form the basis of computer calculations.
Usually these numbers are a combination of integers and their different multipliers. The computer is usually the base in such an operation. Using such a base and various exponents, the computer will perform millions of operations. The vast majority of these operations are powered by numbers with a movable value.
The idea that is behind the numbers with moving points, which form the most basic and complex features of the computer. For example, a date and time view could take severalOr perhaps a large handful of calculations depending on a number of variables. However, displaying options and results for graphically demanding software programs may require calculation numbering in millions.
Sometimes an interesting by -product of these calculations is that numbers that would be the same on the numerical line or numeric equations may be coexistence. For example, both 0.01 x 10 (1) and 1.00 x 10 (-1) are equal to 0.1 if we write them as parts of the equation, but the calculations with a movable part allow both simply because they are written differently. Equations that tend to simplify things as much as possible are not calculations with a moving point and vice versa.
One problem surrounding such calculations that is quite unpopular with the manufacturer of financial software whose users require accurate calculations up to smaller sides of the decimal field is that the numbers are not definitive at all. Is all fine and good to say time and dateM using this type of calculation, but the determination of a multinational company net assets for a given fiscal year needs a much more definitive numerical accounting than a natural random result to provide the calculation with a movable point. The words themselves suggest that the numbers are not stable at all and this kind of uncertainty makes financial experts unpleasant.
Thefloating point arithmetic is popular with hardware and software manufacturers around the world. One of the most popular standards is nowadays the IEEE standard, an international set of instructions for structuring and analyzing these calculations. This standard is the basis of many programming languages and safety protocols.