There are several meanings of float: an air-filled vessel such as a boat or ship floats on water; buoyancy float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform used in a festive parade float (project management) float (money supply and banking) floating currency floating exchange rate floating point, a datatype in computer science free float of company stock insurance (investable policyholder funds) floating (psychological phenomenon)

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Floating point, Floating point - Usage in computing, Floating point - Problems with floating-point, Floating point - Properties of floating point arithmetic, Floating point - IEEE standard, Floating point - Examples, Floating point - Hidden bit, Floating point - Note

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Floating

• To dream of floating, denotes that you will victoriously overcome obstacles which are seemingly overwhelming you. If the water is muddy your victories will not be gratifying.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Floating, Meaning of Dreams about Floating, Dream Interpretation Floating)

The floating exercise is an important part of the meditation practices of kundalini Tantra, and as such is normally one of the first exercises taught to a new student. Mastery of the floating exercise can bring alignment to virtually any technique or physical world method wished. The floating exercise can also open the student to alignment to any spiritual world method or benefit imagined.  

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Cloud City is a fictional floating city on Bespin, a planet in the Star Wars universe which appears in the film The Empire Strikes Back. Cloud City - Description. The city floats among the clouds with the aid of repulsorlifts and is home to Lando Calrissian and his aide, Lobot. It is a mining colony used to mine Tibanna gas, which is used for weapons and hyperdrives. The city is patroled by cloud cars, which escorted the Millennium Falcon on its entrance to Bespin.< ...

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Widget is a general-purpose term, or placeholder name, for any unspecified device, including those that have not yet been invented. It is commonly used in textbook and other examples where the identity of the product or function is irrelevant and could be distracting: students may be asked to design a business plan for the XYZ Widget Company. Compare Acme. The alt.usage.english Usenet newsgroup FAQ gives the origin of "widget" as the 1924 play "Buxton on Horseback", by George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, as an inv ...

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The carburetor (American spelling, carburettor or carburetter in Commonwealth countries, "carb" for short, or "carbie" (slang)) is a device which mixes air and fuel for an internal-combustion engine. Carburetors are still found in small engines and in older or specialized automobiles such as those designed for stock car racing. However, most cars built since the early 1980s use computerized electronic fuel injection instead of carburetion. The majority of motorcycles still are carburated due to lower weight and cost, however as of 2005 many new mod ...

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A crane is a tower or derrick equipped with cables and pulleys that is used to lift and lower materials. Cranes are commonly used in the construction industry and in manufacturing heavy equipment. Construction cranes are usually temporary structures, either fixed to the ground or mounted on a purpose-built vehicle. Cranes may either be controlled from an operator in a cab that travels with the crane, by a pushbutton pendant control station, or by infrared or radio control. Where a cab operator is employed, workers on the ground will c ...

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Bun Festival (太平清醮 in Chinese, "醮" being a Taoist sacrificial ceremony) is a traditional Chinese festival in Hong Kong. It is held by several (mostly rural) communities, either annually or once every few years. By far the most famous is the Bun Festival at Cheung Chau, which draws tens of thousands of local and overseas tourists every year. The festival is staged every year on the island of Cheung Chau to mark the Eighth day of the Fourth Moon, in the Chinese calendar (usually in early May). It thus coincid ...

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The term computer numbering formats refers to the schemes implemented in digital computer and calculator hardware and software to represent numbers. A common mistake made by non-specialist computer users is a certain faith in the infallibility of numerical computations. For example, if one multiplies, say: one might perhaps expect to get a result of exactly 1, which is the correct answer when applying an exact rational number or algebraic model. In practice, however, the result on a digital computer or calc ...

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The materials definition of a glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly to below its glass transition temperature, thereby not giving enough time for a regular crystal lattice to form. A simple example is when table sugar is melted and cooled rapidly by dumping the liquid sugar onto a cold surface. The resulting solid is amorphous, not crystalline like the sugar was originally, w ...

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A "floating island" in fiction (sometimes called a "flying island"), is a fictitious landmass that flies above the surface of the earth (or in some cases through the depths of space), defying gravity. These islands are usually free-floating and can be directed by the whim of their inhabitants, although some may be permanently anchored. They are usually propelled and/or held aloft by one or more of the following means: Helium, hydrogen or some other lighter than air gas. A lodestone or magnet, as seen in Jonathan Swift's ...

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Floating point - Hidden bit. When using binary (b = 2), one bit, called the hidden bit or the implied bit, can be omitted if all numbers are required to be normalized. The leading digit (most significant bit) of the significand of a normalized binary floating-point number is always non-zero; in particular it is always 1. This means that this bit does not need to be stored explicitly, since for a normalized number it can be understood to be 1. The IEEE 754 standard exploits this fact. R ...

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Arithmetic using the floating point number system has two important properties that differ from those of arithmetic using real numbers. Floating point arithmetic is not associative. This means that in general for floating point numbers x, y, and z: Floating point arithmetic is also not distributive. This means that in general: In short, the order in which operations are carried out can change the output of a floating point calculation. This is important in numerical ana ...

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Floating point, Floating point - Usage in computing, Floating point - Problems with floating-point, Floating point - Properties of floating point arithmetic, Floating point - IEEE standard, Floating point - Examples, Floating point - Hidden bit, Floating point - Note

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The IEEE has standardized the computer representation for binary floating-point numbers in IEEE 754. This standard is followed by almost all modern machines. Notable exceptions include IBM Mainframes, which have both hexadecimal and IEEE 754 data types, and Cray vector machines, where the T90 series had an IEEE version, but the SV1 still uses Cray floating-point format. As of 2000, the IEEE 754 stan ...

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Floating point, Floating point - Usage in computing, Floating point - Problems with floating-point, Floating point - Properties of floating point arithmetic, Floating point - IEEE standard, Floating point - Examples, Floating point - Hidden bit, Floating point - Note

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Some FRNs have special features such as maximum or minimum coupons, called capped FRNs and floored FRNs. Those with both minimum and maximum coupons are called collared FRNs. FRNs can also be obtained synthetically by the combination of a fixed rate bond and an interest rate swap. This combination is known as an Asset Swap. ...

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Securities dealers make markets in FRNs. They are traded over-the-counter, instead of on a stock exchange. In Europe, most FRNs are liquid, as the biggest investors are banks. In the US, FRNs are mostly held to maturity, so the markets aren't as liquid. In the wholesale markets, FRNs are typically quoted as a spread over the reference rate. Floating rate note - Trading example. Suppose a new 5 year FRN pays a coupon of 3 months LIBOR +0.20%, and is issued at par (100.00). If the perception of the credit-wo ...

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Floating rate note, Floating rate note - Issuers, Floating rate note - Variations, Floating rate note - Risk, Floating rate note - Trading, Floating rate note - Trading example

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Following is a description of the standard's format for floating-point numbers. IEEE floating-point standard - Bit conventions used in this article. Bits within a word of width W are indexed by integers in the range 0 to W−1 inclusive. The bit with index 0 is drawn on the right. The lowest indexed bit is usually the least significant. IEEE floating-point standard - Single-precision 32 bit. See also:

IEEE floating-point standard, IEEE floating-point standard - Anatomy of a floating-point number, IEEE floating-point standard - Bit conventions used in this article, IEEE floating-point standard - Single-precision 32 bit, IEEE floating-point standard - An example, IEEE floating-point standard - Double-precision 64 bit, IEEE floating-point standard - Comparing floating-point numbers, IEEE floating-point standard - Rounding floating-point numbers, IEEE floating-point standard - Revision of the standard

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The amount of shares available on the open market, the "float" (or "free float") is sometimes less than the total number of shares because a portion of the outstanding shares may be held by "insiders," and/or by the company as treasury stock. In addition to the float being perhaps much smaller than the total number of shares, a significant portion of the float may be owned by large institutional investors who rarely trade. As a result, on any given trading day, generally only a small percentage of shares is traded, as in the example of ...

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Market capitalization, Market capitalization - Valuation, Market capitalization - Float, Market capitalization - Categorization of companies by market cap, Market capitalization - Examples, Market capitalization - Levels, Market capitalization - Lists

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The amount of shares available on the open market, the "free float", is sometimes less than the total number of shares because a portion of the outstanding shares may be held by "insiders," and/or by the company as treasury stock. In addition to the float being perhaps much smaller than the total number of shares, a significant portion of the float may be owned by large institutional investors who rarely trade. As a result, on any given trading day, generally only a small percentage of shares is traded, as in the example of ...

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Market capitalization, Market capitalization - Valuation, Market capitalization - Float, Market capitalization - Categorization of companies by market cap, Market capitalization - Examples, Market capitalization - Levels, Market capitalization - Lists

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