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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computing">computing</a>, <b>floating-point arithmetic</b> (<b>FP</b>) is <a href="page.php?w=arithmetic">arithmetic</a> on subsets of <a href="page.php?w=real_number">real number</a>s formed by a <a href="page.php?w=significand">significand</a> (a <a href="page.php?w=Sign_%28mathematics%29">signed</a> sequence of a fixed number of digits in some <a href="page.php?w=Radix">base</a>) multiplied by an <a href="page.php?w=integer_power">integer power</a> of that base.Numbers of this form are called <b>floating-point numbers</b>.</p><p>
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