hard float

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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  1. (computingCategory:en:Computing#HARDFLOAT, programmingCategory:en:Programming#HARDFLOAT) A hardware implementation of a floating-point number.[1]
    Antonym: soft float

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