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{{Floating-point}}

In [[computing]], '''floating-point arithmetic''' ('''FP''') is [[arithmetic]] on subsets of [[real number]]s formed by a [[significand]] – a [[Sign (mathematics)|signed]] sequence of a fixed number of digits in some [[Radix|base]], –called multiplieda [[significand]], scaled by an [[integer power[[exponent]] of that base.

Numbers of this form are called '''floating-point numbers'''.<ref name="Muller_2010"/>{{rp|3}}<ref name="sterbenz1974fpcomp">{{cite book

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