floating-point operation
floating-point operation The addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division of two floating-point operands to produce a floating-point result. There is an international standard (IEEE standard 754: 1985) that is designed to ensure the reproducibility of floating-point operations. See also floating-point notation, flops.
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