In computing , floatingpoint describes a system for representing Real number real numbers which supports ... Significant digits base sup exponent sup The term floatingpoint refers to the fact that the radix point ... representation, and floatingpoint representation can thus be thought of as a computer realization of scientific notation . Over the years, several different floatingpoint representations ... is that defined by the IEEE 754 Standard. The advantage of floatingpoint representation over ... a floatingpoint representation such as the IEEE 754 Decimal32 floatingpoint format decimal32 ..., and so on. The floatingpoint format needs slightly more storage to encode the position of the radix point , so when stored in the same space, floatingpoint numbers achieve their greater range at the expense of Accuracy and precision precision . The speed of floatingpoint operations ... in standard form scientific notation as 1.528535047 e 5 seconds. Floatingpoint representation is similar in concept to scientific notation. Logically, a floatingpoint number consists of A signed ... floatingpoint numbers, with base 2 Binary numeral system binary being the most common, followed ... and some exotic ones like 3 see Setun . Floatingpoint numbers are rational number s because they can ... be represented. For instance, 1 5 cannot be represented exactly as a floatingpoint number using ... precision 32 bit floatingpoint representation p 24 and so the significand is a string of 24 bit s. For instance ... to significand, exponent in floatingpoint numbers. Some other computer representations for non integral numbers Floatingpoint representation, in particular the standard IEEE format, is by far the most ... is similar to floatingpoint, but the value to representation curve, i. e. the graph of the logarithm function, is smooth except at 0 . Contrary to floatingpoint arithmetic, in a logarithmic number ... are hard. Where greater precision is desired, floatingpoint arithmetic can be implemented typically ... more details
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Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date November 2006 Confusing date December 2006 The Technical Floating Point TFP model was a new set of computer Central processing unit processor Instruction set instructions in microcode , designed by Advanced Micro Devices AMD . It was used to replace the x87 floating point capabilities in the original Intel IA 32 architecture. The x87 floating point model is the model Intel added into its x86 IA 32 architecture, to perform floating point number mathematics. The implementation was based on a floating point stack, hence was very primitive and hard to optimize. Through the development of the computer software and hardware, the x87 instruction set becomes more and more the limited factor to accelerate the floating point processing power of the CPU Central Processing Unit s. Due to above reason, the TFP was designed to be a register based floating point architecture, which was more advanced and flexible. The register based floating point architecture is being widely used in RISC based machines, such as PowerPC , DEC Alpha Alpha , SPARC , Intel IA 64 , etc. The TFP was intended to be implemented in the X86 64 AMD64 instruction set. The AMD64 instruction set was designed by the Athlon 64 CPU team in AMD, Inc., implemented into its Athlon 64 FX series cpus. It is an extension to current x86 IA 32 architecture, provides 64 bits width computation and memory addressing ability. However, due to the lack of certainty of whether the TFP will be widely adopted by the software developers, along with the popularity of Intel SSE SSE2 instruction sets, the TFP model was finally abandoned. Category Computer arithmetic ... more details
Image KL Intel C80287.jpg right thumb 180px An Intel 80287 A floatingpoint unit FPU , colloquially a math ... support for floatingpoint operations. In the past, some systems have implemented floatingpoint ... space code. In most modern computer architectures, there is some division of floatingpoint operations ... architecture Intel x86 have dedicated floatingpoint Processor register registers , while some take it as far as independent computer clock clocking schemes. Floatingpoint operations are often instruction ... , floatingpoint operations were sometimes pipelined separately from integer operations. Since ... a CPU is executing a program that calls for a floatingpoint operation, there are three ways to carry it out A floatingpoint unit emulator a floatingpoint library Add on FPU Integrated FPU Floatingpoint library wikibooks FloatingPoint Soft Implementations wikibooks Embedded Systems FloatingPoint Unit Some floatingpoint hardware only supports the simplest operations addition, subtraction, and multiplication. But even the most complex floatingpoint hardware has a finite number of operations ... a CPU is executing a program that calls for a floatingpoint operation not directly supported by the hardware, the CPU uses a series of simpler floatingpoint operations. In systems without any floating ... to emulate floatingpoint operations is often packaged in a floatingpoint library computing ... yet. Starting with the 80486 , in x86 chips the floatingpoint unit was integrated with the CPU ... which serve to provide floatingpoint arithmetic capability in systems that might not otherwise possess ... traditional floatingpoint coprocessors such as the 80x87 series, is that these add on FPUs are host ... IEEE floatingpoint standard also known as IEEE 754 IBM FloatingPoint Architecture References cite ... nl Floatingpoint unit ja FPU pl Koprocesor pt Unidade de ponto flutuante ru simple Floatingpoint unit sk Matematick koprocesor sl Koprocesor sv Flyttalsprocessor zh ... more details
floatingpointfloatingpoint format. ref http www.bitsavers.org pdf ibm 360 princOps A22 ... GA22 7000 4, Fifth Edition September 1, 1975 , pp.157 170 ref In comparison to IEEE 754 floatingpoint, the IBM floatingpoint format has a longer significand, and a shorter exponent. Single precision 32 bit A single precision single precision binary floatingpoint number is stored in a 32 bit word ... Let us decode the number &minus 118.625 using the IBM floatingpoint system. We need to get the sign ... Extended precision 128 bit Extended precision Quadruple precision floatingpoint format quadruple precision ... 6c80b870ebb2c30585256bfa0067f9e9 OpenDocument The S 390 G5 floatingpoint unit , Schwarz, E. M. and Krygowsk ... have also included IEEE binary floatingpoint units which conform to the IEEE 754 IEEE 754 Standard for FloatingPoint Arithmetic . IEEE decimal floatingpoint was added to IBM System z9 GA2 ... OpenDocument Decimal floatingpoint in z9 An implementation and testing perspective .... ref http dx.doi.org 10.1147 JRD.2009.5388585 Decimal floatingpoint support on the IBM System z10 processor ... , pp.4 1 4 10 ref Modern IBM mainframes support three floatingpoint radices with 3 hexadecimal HFP formats, 3 binary BFP formats, and 3 decimal DFP formats. There are two floatingpoint units per ... holds all 3 formats. Special uses The IBM floatingpoint format is used in SAS 5 Transport files .XPT ... Y format files. Systems which use Base 16 Excess 64 FloatingPoint format System 360 IBM System ... 754 IEEE 754 Standard for FloatingPoint Arithmetic Microsoft Binary Format References Reflist External ... An analysis of floatingpoint addition , Sweeney, D. W., IBM Systems Journal , Vol 4 Issue 1 1965 , pp. 31 42 http doi.ieeecomputersociety.org 10.1109 MAHC.1995.10006 System 360 FloatingPoint ... , pp. 62 63, ISSN 1058 6180 Idiosyncrasies of System 360 FloatingPoint , Harding, L. J., Presented ... cbi00021 SHARE XXVII , Toronto, Canada, 1966 Modifications of System 360 FloatingPoint , Harding ... more details
Multiple issues expert August 2007 rewrite August 2007 cleanup June 2007 date May 2009 Decimal floatingpoint arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floatingpoint numbers ... or financial information and binary base 2 fractions. The advantage of decimal floatingpoint representation over decimal Fixed point arithmetic fixed point and Integer computer science integer representation is that it supports a much wider range of values. For example, while a fixed point representation ..., 8765.43, 123.00, and so on, a floatingpoint representation with eight decimal digits could also ..., the Kahan summation algorithm can be used in floatingpoint to add many numbers with no asymptotic ... decimal IEEE cowlishaw arith16.pdf Decimal FloatingPoint Algorism for Computers in the Proceedings ... point Implementations Early mechanical uses of decimal floatingpoint are evident in the abacus , slide .... In 1987, the IEEE released IEEE 854 , a standard for computing with decimal floatingpoint, which lacked a specification for how floatingpoint data should be encoded for interchange with other ... decimal floatingpoint representations. Like the binary floatingpoint formats, the number is divided into a sign, and exponent, and a significand . Unlike binary floatingpoint, numbers are not necessarily ... value at all. class wikitable style text align center IEEE 754 2008 decimal floatingpoint formats ... conversion to and from binary floatingpoint form faster, but requires specialized hardware to manipulate ... infinity and NaNs, respectively. Floatingpoint arithmetic operations The usual rule for performing floatingpoint arithmetic is that the exact mathematical value is calculated, ref Computer ... Net http software.intel.com en us blogs 2008 03 06 intel decimal floatingpoint math library Intel Decimal FloatingPoint Math Library http www.bytereef.org mpdecimal index.html libmpdec arbitrary precision decimal floatingpoint C C library See also Binary coded decimal DEFAULTSORT Decimal Floating ... more details
with movable midsections length 7,578 ft 2,310 m ref name presskit The Evergreen PointFloating Bridge , now officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge Evergreen Point , is the longest pontoon bridge floating bridge on Earth at convert 7,500 ft m . ref Washington State Department of Transportation ... left upright Aerial view of the Evergreen PointFloating Bridge under construction, 1962. This shows ... Washington Interstate 90 , which at its construction was the largest floating structure ever built. Tolls were lifted from the Evergreen PointFloating Bridge in 1979, and the wide area or road where ..., Stephen. The Evergreen PointFloating Bridge in Crisis an Approach to Evaluating Alternative Solutions ... bridge by locals. ref name presskit The Evergreen Point of the bridge s original name is the westernmost ... two are Hunts Point, Washington Hunts Point and Yarrow Point, Washington Yarrow Point . In 1988 ... Portage Bay opens up into Lake Washington. Evergreen Point is across the lake. The bridge s opening ... title Redmond Comprehensive Plan , 2005 ref It was the second floating bridge to cross Lake Washington, the first being the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge Lake Washington Floating Bridge ... Point Bridge, North Lake Bridge. December 1968. ref To help provide the political lubrication needed ... needed date January 2009 , backward from what one might expect. The I 90 floating bridge has more ... id s0010567 title Evergreen Point Bridge http www.wsdot.wa.gov Traffic Bridges sr520 Bridge camera ... more details
FloatingPoint Systems Inc. FPS was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of minisupercomputer s. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad . ref name pbj cite news url http www.bizjournals.com portland news 2010 11 25 norm winningstad dies at age 85.html title Norm Winningstad dies at age 85 last Smith first Rob date November 25, 2010 work Portland Business Journal accessdate 2 December 2010 ref The original goal of the company was to supply floatingpoint coprocessor s for minicomputers . In 1976, the FPS AP 120B AP 120B vector processor array processor was produced. This was soon followed by a larger FPS AP 190 . In 1981, the follow on FPS 164 was produced, followed by its big brother, the 264 having the same architecture. This was 5 times faster using Emitter coupled logic ECL instead of Transistor transistor logic TTL chips. These processors were widely used as attached processors for scientific applications in reflection seismology , physical chemistry , NSA cryptology and other disciplines requiring large numbers of computations. Attached array processors were usually used in facilities where larger supercomputers were either not needed or not affordable. In 1986, the T Series hypercube using INMOS transputer s and Weitek floatingpoint processors was introduced. The T stood for Tesseract . Unfortunately, parallel processing was still in its infancy and the tools and libraries for the T Series did not make it easy for customers to get the full potential of the parallel architecture. I O was also a difficulty and the T Series was discontinued, a mistake costing tens of millions of dollars that was nearly fatal to FPS. In 1988, FPS acquired the assets of Celerity Computing of San Diego, California , renaming itself as FPS Computing . Celerity s product lines were further developed by FPS, the Celerity 6000 minisupercomputer being developed ... Companies disestablished in 1991 ru FloatingPoint Systems ... more details
floatingpoint In computing , decimal32 is a decimal floatingpoint computer numbering format that occupies 4 bytes 32 bits in computer memory. It is intended for applications where it is necessary to emulate decimal rounding exactly, such as financial and tax computations. Decimal32 supports 7 decimal digit s of significand and an exponent range of 95 to 96, i.e. gaps 0.000 000 e 95 to gaps 9.999 999 e 96 . Equivalently, gaps 0 000 000 e 101 to gaps 9 999 999 e 90 . Because the significand is not normalized, most values with less than 7 significant digits have multiple possible representations gaps 1 10 sup 2 sup & 61 0.1 10 sup 3 sup & 61 0.01 10 sup 4 sup , etc. Zero has 192 possible representations 384 if you include both signed zero s . Decimal32 floatingpoint is a relatively new decimal floatingpoint format, formally introduced in the 2008 version of IEEE 754 . Representation of decimal32 values IEEE 754 allows two alternative representation methods for decimal32 values. The standard does not specify how to signify which representation is used, for instance in a situation where decimal32 values are communicated between systems. In one representation method, based on binary integer decimal , the significand is represented as binary coded positive integer. The other, alternative, representation method is based on densely packed decimal for most of the significand except the most significant digit . Both alternatives provide exactly the same range of representable numbers 7 digits of significand and gaps 3 2 sup 6 sup & 61 192 possible exponent values. In both cases, the most significant 4 bits of the significand which actually only have 10 possible values are combined with the most significant 2 bits of the exponent 3 possible values to use 30 of the 32 possible values of a 5 bit field. The remaining combinations encode infinity infinities and NaN s. If the leading ... 754 2008 IEEE Standard for FloatingPoint Arithmetic IEEE 754 ISO IEC 10967 , Language Independent ... more details
floatingpoint In computing , decimal64 is a decimal floatingpoint computer numbering format that occupies 8 bytes 64 bits in computer memory. It is intended for applications where it is necessary to emulate decimal rounding exactly, such as financial and tax computations. Decimal64 supports 16 decimal digit s of significand and an exponent range of 383 to 384, i.e. gaps 0.000 000 000 000 000 e 383 to gaps 9.999 999 999 999 999 e 384 . Equivalently, gaps 0 000 000 000 000 000 e 398 to gaps 9 999 999 999 999 999 e 369 . Because the significand is not normalized, most values with less than 16 significant digits have multiple possible representations gaps 1 10 sup 2 sup & 61 0.1 10 sup 3 sup & 61 0.01 10 sup 4 sup , etc. Zero has 768 possible representations 1536 if you include both signed zero s . Decimal64 floatingpoint is a relatively new decimal floatingpoint format, formally introduced in the 2008 version of IEEE 754 . Representation of decimal64 values IEEE 754 allows two alternative representation methods for decimal64 values. The standard does not specify how to signify which representation is used, for instance in a situation where decimal64 values are communicated between systems. In one representation method, based on binary integer decimal , the significand is represented as binary coded positive integer. The other, alternative, representation method is based on densely packed decimal for most of the significand except the most significant digit . Both alternatives provide exactly the same range of representable numbers 16 digits of significand and 3 2 sup 8 sup 768 possible exponent values. In both cases, the most significant 4 bits of the significand which actually only have 10 possible values are combined with the most significant 2 bits of the exponent 3 possible values to use 30 of the 32 possible values of a 5 bit field. The remaining combinations encode ... text truesignificand 10 math See also IEEE 754 2008 IEEE Standard for FloatingPoint Arithmetic IEEE ... more details
floatingpoint In computing , decimal128 is a decimal floatingpoint computer numbering format that occupies 16 bytes 128 bits in computer memory. It is intended for applications where it is necessary to emulate decimal rounding exactly, such as financial and tax computations. Decimal128 supports 34 decimal digit s of significand and an exponent range of 6143 to 6144, i.e. gaps 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 e 6143 to gaps 9.999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 e 6144 . Equivalently, gaps 0 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 e 6176 to gaps 9 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 e 6111 . Because the significand is not normalized, most values with less than 34 significant digits have multiple possible representations gaps 1 10 sup 2 sup & 61 0.1 10 sup 3 sup & 61 0.01 10 sup 4 sup , etc. Zero has gaps 12 288 possible representations gaps 24 576 if you include both signed zero s . Decimal128 floatingpoint is a relatively new decimal floatingpoint format, formally introduced in the 2008 version of IEEE 754 . Representation of decimal128 values IEEE 754 allows two alternative representation methods for decimal128 values. The standard does not specify how to signify which representation is used, for instance in a situation where decimal128 values are communicated between systems. In one representation method, based on binary integer decimal , the significand is represented as binary coded positive integer. The other, alternative, representation method is based on densely packed decimal for most of the significand except the most significant digit . Both alternatives provide exactly the same range of representable numbers 34 digits of significand and 3 2 sup 12 sup gaps 12 288 possible exponent values. In both cases, the most significant 4 bits of the significand which actually only have 10 possible values are combined with the most significant ... for FloatingPoint Arithmetic IEEE 754 ISO IEC 10967 , Language Independent Arithmetic Primitive ... more details
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In computing , half precision is a binary floatingpoint computer numbering format that occupies 2 bytes 16 bits in modern computers in computer memory. In IEEE 754 2008 the 16 bit base 2 format is officially referred to as binary16 . It is intended for storage of many floatingpoint values where higher precision need not be stored , not for performing arithmetic computations. Half precision floatingpoint is a relatively new binary floatingpoint format. It was created concurrently by Nvidia and Industrial Light & Magic . Nvidia defined the half datatype in the Cg programming language Cg language , released in early 2002, and was the first to implement 16 bit floatingpoint in silicon, with the GeForce FX, released in late 2002. ref Nvidia ref ILM was searching for an image format that could handle dynamic ranges, but without the hard drive and memory cost of floatingpoint representations that are commonly used for floatingpoint computation single and double precision . ref name exr ... exr Floatingpoint IEEE 754 half precision binary floatingpoint format binary16 The IEEE 754 standard ... . The bits are laid out as follows Image IEEE 754r Half FloatingPoint Format.svg Exponent encoding The half precision binary floatingpoint exponent is encoded using an offset binary representation ... , of the floatingpoint value. This includes the sign, biased exponent, and significand. 3c00 1 c000 ... minifloat Minifloats in Survey of FloatingPoint Formats http www.openexr.org OpenEXR site http ... csharp half C source code implementing a half precision floatingpoint data type can be found here DEFAULTSORT Half Precision FloatingPoint Format Category Computer arithmetic Category Data types ja ... , because of the odd number of bits in the significand. So the bits beyond the rounding point are code ... and 65535 round down to the nearest multiple of 32 p See also IEEE 754 2008 IEEE Standard for FloatingPoint Arithmetic IEEE 754 ISO IEC 10967 , Language Independent Arithmetic Primitive data type RGBE ... more details
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In computing , quadruple precision also commonly shortened to quad precision is a binary floatingpoint computer numbering format that occupies 16 bytes 128 bits in modern computers in computer memory. In IEEE 754 2008 the 128 bit base 2 format is officially referred to as binary128 . Floatingpoint IEEE 754 quadruple precision binary floatingpoint format binary128 The IEEE 754 standard specifies a binary128 as having Sign bit 1 Exponent width 15 Significand precision arithmetic precision 113 112 explicitly stored significand , with a d at the end, is a technical term, please do not confuse with significant The format is written with an implicit lead bit with value 1 unless the exponent is stored with all zeros. Thus only 112 bits of the significand appear in the memory format, but the total precision is 113 bits approximately 34 decimal digits, math log 10 2 113 approx 34.016 math . The bits are laid out as follows Image IEEE 754 Quadruple FloatingPoint Format.svg Exponent encoding The quadruple precision binary floatingpoint exponent is encoded using an offset binary representation, with the zero offset being 16383 also known as exponent bias in the IEEE 754 standard. E sub min sub 0x0001 0x3fff 16382 E sub max sub 0x7ffe 0x3fff 16383 Exponent bias 0x3fff 16383 Thus, as defined by the offset binary representation, in order to get the true exponent the offset of 16383 has to be subtracted from the stored exponent. The stored exponents 0x0000 and 0x7fff are interpreted specially. class wikitable style text align center Exponent Significand zero Significand non zero Equation ... representation , in hexadecimal , of the floatingpoint value. This includes the sign, biased exponent ... for FloatingPoint Arithmetic IEEE 754 Extended precision 80 bit ISO IEC 10967 , Language Independent ... onlinedocs gcc Floating Types.html Section 6.10 Additional Floating Types gcc.gnu.org ref using ... of the odd number of bits in the significand. So the bits beyond the rounding point are code ... more details
When it comes to computers and or computer programming, IEEE single precision floatingpoint computer ... single in IEEE 754 1985 . In older computers, some older floatingpoint format of 4 bytes was used. One of the first programming language s to provide single and double precision floatingpoint ... precision binary floatingpoint is used due to its wider range over Fixed point arithmetic fixed point of the same bit width , even if at the cost of precision. Single precision is known as float ... of GNU Octave Octave prior to 3.2 refer to Double precision floatingpoint format double precision numbers. Floatingpoint IEEE 754 single precision binary floatingpoint format binary32 The IEEE 754 ... , of the floatingpoint value. This includes the sign, biased exponent, and significand ... in base 10. See also IEEE 754 2008 IEEE Standard for FloatingPoint Arithmetic IEEE 754 ISO IEC 10967 , Language Independent Arithmetic Primitive data type Numerical stability Double precision floatingpoint format External links http www.h schmidt.net FloatApplet IEEE754.html Online calculator http ... fraction bits to the right of the binary point and an implicit leading bit to the left of the binary point with value 1 unless the exponent is stored with all zeros. Thus only 23 fraction bits of the significand ... sign 1 sum i 1 23 b i 2 i times 2 e 127 math Exponent encoding The single precision binary floatingpoint exponent is encoded using an offset binary representation, with the zero offset being 127 also ... 130 1000 0010 The fraction is 100011 looking to the right of the binary point From these we ... is 0 looking to the right of the binary point in 1.0 is all 0 000...0 From these we can form the resulting ... is 0 looking to the right of binary point in 1.0 is all zeros From these we can form the resulting ... to the right of binary point in 1.1 is a single 1 x sub 1 sub From these we can form the resulting ... point are code 1010... code which is more than 1 2 of a unit in the last place . Converting ... more details
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TOCright The term floating bridge can to refer to the following Bridges that float on water Temporary floating crossings Military pontoon bridge Permanent floating crossings These are usually a pontoon bridge Bergs ysund Bridge Berg ysund Floating Bridge Demerara Harbour Bridge Dongjin Bridge Eastbank Esplanade Evergreen PointFloating Bridge Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge Evergreen Point also known as the Evergreen PointFloating Bridge Floating Bridge, Dubai Galata Bridge Hobart Bridge Hood Canal Bridge Howrah Bridge Interstate 90 floating bridge which consists of two bridges Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge , which carries Interstate 90 s eastbound traffic. Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge , which carries Interstate 90 s westbound traffic and the carpool lanes. Okanagan Lake Bridge Nordhordland Bridge Queen Emma Bridge Sozh Floating Bridge Sunset Lake Floating Bridge Sunset Lake Floating Bridge, Vermont Ferries A cable ferry , especially one designed by British civil engineer James Meadows Rendel engineer James Meadows Rendel , including Cowes Floating Bridge Torpoint Ferry Woolston Floating Bridge Card games Floating bridge card game Musical instruments A type of bridge instrument the Fender Jaguar and Jazzmaster guitars have one, see tremolo arm Fender floating bridge . See also List of bridges in the United States disambig ... more details
Floating bladderwort may be a common name for Utricularia gibba , floating bladderwort Utricularia inflata , large floating bladderwort Utricularia radiata , little floating bladderwort disambig Category Utricularia species by common name ... more details
Expert subject Aviation date August 2008 A Floating airport is an airport built and situated on a very large floating structure VLFS located many miles out at sea utilizing a flotation type of device or devices such as Pneumatic Stabilized Platform PSP technology. As the population increases and land becomes more expensive and scarce, very large floating structure s VLFS such as floating airports could help solve land use , pollution and aircraft noise issues. Description In theory, issues and problems of land based airports could be minimized by locating airports several miles off the coast. Takeoffs ... mass transit system that could connect the floating airport to coastal communities and minimize traffic issues. A floating structure, such as a floating airport, is theorised to have less impact on the environment ... of mountains or clearing of green space and the floating structure provides a reef like environment ... waves into energy to help sustain the energy needs of the airport. Floating airport projects In 2000 ... mega float.html Mega Float ref a 1000 metre floating runway in Tokyo Bay . After conducting several real aircraft landings, the Ministry concluded that floating runways hydro elastic response would ... Platform PSP was proposed as a means for constructing a new floating airport for San Diego in the Pacific Ocean , at least three miles off the tip of Point Loma . However, this proposed design was rejected ..., Cost Effective Cargo and Port Security Strategy by Dr. Michael J. Hillyard PSP Floating Airport ... Sep96 1302.html September 1996 Floating Airports Wave of the Future http www.sfgate.com cgi bin article.cgi ... Staff Writer Planes would land on floating runways built on S.F. Bay http cat.inist.fr ?aModele afficheN&cpsidt 3494214 Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique Floatport a floating solution ... San Diego Union Tribune SignOnSanDiego.com Floating airport proposal resurfaces http www.jimbell.com ... San Diego CityBEAT , The sinking of the San Diego floating airport proposal by D.A. Kolodenko Category ... more details
A floating charge is a security interest over a fund of changing assets of a company law company or a limited ... point the charge attaches to specific assets. The conversion called crystallisation can be triggered ... proceedings . Floating charges can only be granted by companies. If an individual person or a partnership ... to grant a floating charge, it would be void law void as a general assignment in bankruptcy .... See section 344 2 of the Insolvency Act 1986. ref Floating charges take effect in Equity ... under a floating charge, this is only of any consequence in relation to disposals after the charge has crystallised. The floating charge has been described as one of equity s most brilliant creations ..., ISBN 0 19 929993 5 ref Definition Although the nature of a floating charge has been widely considered ... Stocks and Other Securities Investment Co Ltd v Manila Rly Co 1897 AC 81 at 86 he said A floating ... stated ...a floating is ambulatory and shifting in nature, hovering over and so to speak floating with the property ... stating in that case that he did not intend to give a definition of the term floating charge, his description is generally cited as the most authoritative definition of what a floating charge is it is a charge ... of the House of Lords House of Lords elected instead to describe the essential characteristic of a floating .... Recharacterisation Because of the lower priority of a floating charge as to which see below , most security documents that create floating charges also seek to create fixed charges over as many ... being expressed as a fixed charge it should be recharacterisation recharacterised as a floating charge, with the lower priority that floating charges have. This issue arises most frequently in relation ... effect as a floating charge. See also http www.hg.org articles article 724.html analysis of the House ... 2nd edn, 1996 ref have suggested that the floating chargee, prior to crystallisation, may have no proprietary ... interest does exist. Alternatively, the floating chargee may have an inchoate type of proprietary ... more details
Floating signifiers or empty signifiers is a term used in semiotics to denote signifier s without referents, such as a word that doesn t point to any actual object or agreed upon meaning. Origin and definition Claude L vi Strauss originated this term ref Claude L vi Strauss, Introduction l oeuvre de Marcel Mauss in Mauss, Sociologie et Anthropologie , Paris, 1950. ref , where he identifies terms like mana magical mystical substance of which the magic is formed , or oomph American slang term for flavor in the figurative sense ref cite web url http www.thefreedictionary.com oomph title Oomph definition publisher Thefreedictionary.com ref to represent an undetermined quantity of signification, in itself void of meaning and thus apt to receive any meaning . Daniel Chandler defines the term as a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non existent signified. ref name Chandler cite web url http www.aber.ac.uk media Documents S4B sem02a.html last Chandler first Daniel title Semiotics for Beginners publisher aber.ac.uk ref As such a floating siginifier may mean different things to different people they may stand for many or even any signifieds they may mean whatever their interpreters want them to mean. Such a floating signifier which is said to possess symbolic value ... Jeffrey Mehlman, The Floating Signifier From L vi Strauss to Lacan , Yale French Studies, No. 48 ... of floating signifiers can be applied to concepts such as Race classification of human beings race ref cite web url http caffeinesparks.blogspot.com 2007 08 race floating signifier.html title Race a Floating Signifier? Stuart Hall speech publisher caffeine sparks ref and gender , as a way of asserting ... , such as the example of the Rorschach inkblot test . Roland Barthes , while not using the term floating ... that they constituted a floating chain of signifieds. ref name Chandler For example the Flag ... but point beyond themselves to other signifiers in an indefinite referral of signifier to signified ... more details
The term Floating Craps refers to an illegal operation of the dice game craps . The term floating refers to the practice of the game s operators using portable tables and equipment to quickly move the game from location to location to stay ahead of the law enforcement authorities. The term may have originated in the 1930s when Benny Binion later known for founding the downtown Las Vegas hotel Binion s Horseshoe Binions set up an illegal craps game utilizing tables created from portable crates for Texas s Centennial celebration. ref name PrestonAmarilloSlim Preston, Amarillo Slim and Greg Dinkin. Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People April 26, 2005 , p. 132, Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 978 0060762308 ref In the 1950s and 60s the The Sands The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas had an actual legal craps table that floated in the swimming pool to play off the notoriety of the term. ref name RoyerVictor Royer, Victor H. Casino Gamble Talk The Language of Gambling and New Casino Games 2003 , p. 59, Lyle Stuart, ISBN 0818406348, 9780818406348 ref The 1950 Broadway theatre Broadway play Guys and Dolls musical Guys and Dolls features a major plot point revolving around a floating craps game. References reflist Category Dice games ... more details
unreferenced date April 2008 sound change A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonant s, no vowel s, but only tone linguistics tone . It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighboring morphemes. An example occurs in Bambara language Bambara . Bambara has two phoneme phonemic tones, high and low. In this language, the definite article is a floating low tone. With a noun in isolation, it docks to the preceding vowel, turning a high tone into a falling tone b river b the river . When it occurs between two high tones, it downstep phonetics downstep s the following tone IPA b t it s not a river IPA b t or IPA b t it s not the river Also common are floating tones associated with a segment linguistics segment al morpheme such as an affix. For example, in Okphela language Okphela , an Edoid languages Edoid language of Nigeria, the main negative morpheme is distinguished from the present tense morpheme by tone the present tense morpheme carries high tone, whereas the negative past morpheme a imposes a high tone on the syllable which precedes it oh nga he is climbing h a nga he didn t climb Floating tones derive historically from morphemes which assimilation linguistics assimilate or lenition lenite to the point where only their tone remains. Suprasegmentals Category Linguistics Category Tonal languages ling stub br Tonenn distag ... more details
Floating city may mean Floating city science fiction , settlements that use buoyancy to remain in the atmosphere of a planet Ocean colonization , the theory and practice of building structures to allow humans to live permanently in areas of Earth covered in water Very large floating structure , the theory and practice of building floating structures on the sea. Floating city freshwater , the theory and practice of building floating structures on freshwater e.g. rivers, ... . Several projects have been set up already in countries such as the Netherlands Some Mythical city mythical cities are regarded as being floating cities, such as Asgard Shamballah , as conceived by Theosophy , as floating above the Gobi Desert on the etheric plane and being the home of the governing deity of Earth , Sanat Kumara Floating city may also refer to Freedom Ship , a concept for a floating city ship proposed by Norman Nixon of Freedom Ship International. America World City , a concept for a floating city ship proposed by John Rogers of World City Corporation Floating City song Floating City song , by Tori Amos 1980s synthpop band Traction City Raft Cities Raft Cities from the Mortal Engines Quartet of books Floating Cities book a book by Stephen Wiltshire See also Stilt house Mobile offshore base MOB disambig ... more details
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