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Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point dates back thousands of years, the concept is the same today.

Before becoming adopted as a catch-phrase on TikTok, the term ‘flop’ was a short-hand for floating point operations per second. Floating point numbers are commonly known as “real” numbers ...