floating-point notation

NOUN
23 LETTERS · STARTS WITH F

floating-point notation is a valid 23-letter word worth 27 points in Scrabble and 34 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
F4L1O1A1T1I1N1G2-0P3O1I1N1T1N1O1T1A1T1I1O1N1
4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =27 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 54TRIPLE WORD → 81
MEANING

What does floating-point notation mean?

NOUN · 1 SENSE
1

A radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating-point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12-2 where -2 is the exponent.