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No, it is typically described using scientific notation - floating point is a fixed width representation of a number with fractional parts.

• jameshart 4y ago
  And floating point numbers - and scientific notation - can both only express rationals. They aren’t ‘reals’.
  • Koshkin 4y ago
    My point was that it seems that in calculations it is useful to think of very large integers that are known to some approximation as real numbers.