float

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Editorial note

And wouldn't a bloated ship float pretty well?

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Quick take

the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of float gathered in one view.

noun

the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

noun

the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

noun

a drink with ice cream floating in it

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for float.

noun

the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

noun

the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

noun

a drink with ice cream floating in it

noun

an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade

noun

a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco

noun

something that floats on the surface of water

noun

an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy

verb

be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

verb

be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

verb

set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"

verb

circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"

verb

move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage"

verb

put into the water; "float a ship"

verb

make the surface of level or smooth; "float the plaster"

verb

allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months"

verb

convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"

Example sentences

And wouldn't a bloated ship float pretty well?

The bartender says, "I'll have to charge you extra; that's a root beer float".

That is a pretty sizable chunk of cash to be hanging out there 'in the float' as it were.

And, if they are accidentally dropped into the water, they float.

Smart-float sounds like C++. If programming languages worked like this, we wouldn't have built many apps.

I find it illuminating to look at the exact values of the floating point numbers.

However, people were right to point out that this does not really scale when you have more than one float input or if you want to talk about doubles.

Instead of floating all the platitudes we float about there being lots of talented teams, it would be nice to see some honesty.

This is why SMT solvers supporting floating point numbers is so exciting: it makes this sort of approach practical even for programs that use lots of doubles.

Because, of course, floating point addition and multiplication is not associative.

"But the fact is, almost anyone would rather, at any given moment, float about in the Carribbean, or have sex, or eat some delicious food, than work on hard problems.

It's like saying dinner service on the Titanic is great - none of this matters when you can't even get the boat to float.> "And that they have really seasoned, very smart people working on that Core Data team.

This is to give maximum grip on thicker pile carpets, however this kind of carpet tend to be "squishy" and allow the wheels to float somewhat on the carpet surface no matter what design of tyre.

In particular, several SMT solvers including Z3[1] now support a "theory of floating point" which lets us exhaustively verify and analyze programs that use floating point numbers.

> This is an abominationThat's pretty rude.> Do we honestly need a "framework" to use the background-color and float properties?This story is on the front page, so there are obviously some folk who would.