Definition of "floating point" [floating point]

• Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (the value of the digits) and characteristic (the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 x 101 (adjective)
• Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers (adjective)

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• "+F causes A86 to generate the 287 form of floating point instructions (no implicit FWAIT bytes are generated before the instructions)."
• "When A86 sees a floating point instruction, it generates external references to be resolved by the standard emulation library (provided by Microsoft, Borland, etc.)."