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21Floating Point Systems — Inc. (FPS) was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad.The original goal of the company was to supply floating point coprocessors for minicomputers. In 1976,… …
22Floating rate note — Floating rate notes (FRNs) are bonds that have a variable coupon, equal to a money market reference rate, like LIBOR or federal funds rate, plus a spread. The spread is a rate that remains constant. Almost all FRNs have quarterly coupons, i.e.… …
23line of flotation — The plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it ● flote …
24Line of flotation — Flotation Flo*ta tion, n. [Cf. F. flottation a floating, flottaison water line, fr. flotter to float. See {Flotilla}.] 1. The act, process, or state of floating. [1913 Webster] 2. The science of floating bodies. [1913 Webster] 3. (Com. & Finance) …
25Floating point — In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent …
26Floating point unit — A floating point unit (FPU) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root. Some systems (particularly… …
27Floating-point unit — An Intel 80287 A floating point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication,… …
28Line drawing algorithm — A line drawing algorithm is a graphical algorithm for approximating a line segment on discrete graphical media. On discrete media, such as pixel based displays and printers, line drawing requires such an approximation (in nontrivial cases).On… …
29Floating Charge — A security (i.e. mortgage, lien, etc.) that has an underlying asset or group of assets which is subject to change in quantity and value. Corporations can use floating charges and it does not affect their ability to use the underlying asset as… …
30floating battery — noun 1. : a storage battery connected across an electric line or feeder to equalize the load and maintain the voltage constant 2. : a battery erected on a raft or the hull of a ship or a ship carrying heavy guns and designed as a gun platform… …
