hard float

English

Etymology

From hard (as in hardware) + float (as in floating-point number).

Noun

hard float (plural hard floats)

  1. (computing, programming) A hardware implementation of a floating-point number.[1]
    Antonym: soft float

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References

  1. ^ https://stackoverflow.com/a/3321649
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