Actually 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

Actually 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).