Floating used in a sentence

Floating in a sentence as a noun

What you see, in the end, is a large image floating out in space.

Heh, funny to see this still floating around.

Not land, sea on a floating platform they made themselves.

You're not floating freely, so clearly something's going on.

But that's totally unconvincing to me: if you want 64-bit floating point precision, use doubles.

Jelly fish are floating piles of goo with absolutely no purpose or delight in life other than being floating piles of goo.

...Sure, your computer can perform 10 billion floating point operations per second.

Floating in a sentence as an adjective

An idea has been floating around for a while now that, in theory, you could use eminent domain to seize not just the houses, but the mortgages on the houses.

"Yeah, Reader held back the development of the robot car, glasses, floating balloon internet and the brazilian social site...

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.

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.

Since the ball motion, physics, and coordinates were all in floating point, and the ball is constantly being pushed "down" the sloped table by the gravity vector in every frame, we found that floating point error would gradually accumulate until the ball's position was suddenly on the other side of the barrier!