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"Floating point numbers" are called "Fließkommazahlen" in German, which is a word-for-word translation of "Floating comma numbers". So at least for German I wo
by pluma 11y ago
"Floating point numbers" are called "Fließkommazahlen" in German, which is a word-for-word translation of "Floating comma numbers".
So at least for German I would say yes.
- DonHopkins 11y agoYes, German is so precise! (More precise than floating point.) I'd be surprised if there weren't long German words for different kinds of floating point numbers, that spell out the unabbreviated name of the IEEE standard and the exact number of bits used for mantissa and exponent.
- pluma 11y agoActually the only difference with German is that a) some simple words are longer and b) compound words are always chained together in writing. "Floating point number" is a compound word in English too but there are very few compound words which are chained together as in German (e.g. hardware, blackbird).
- fapjacks 11y ago"siebenhundertsiebenundsiebzigtausendsiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig". In German, whole numbers can be expressed as single words...[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_words#German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_words#German
- pluma 11y agoSeven hundred seventy-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven. Whether it is written with spaces or dashes or neither is nothing more than an artefact of orthography. Extreme compound words can be created in English, too, they just look less like compounds (and they violate cultural aesthetics more than in German).