| floating-point math
If you ever looked at the screen on a
handheld calculator and saw results like "64E7" or "286E-5," you've seen
floating-point math in action. Those numbers are in floating-point
notation (standing for 640,000,000 and 0.00286, respectively).
Floating-point is a branch of mathematics often used in spreadsheet
operations, and floating-point operations (called FLOPs) can be used to
measure computing performance. |