fixed-point representation

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computing the representation of numbers by a single set of digits such that the radix point has a predetermined location, the value of the number depending on the position of each digit relative to the radix pointCompare floating-point representation

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Words nearby fixed-point representation

fixed-length, fixed liability, fixed link, fixed oil, fixed point, fixed-point representation, fixed price, fixed-rate mortgage, fixed satellite, fixed sign, fixed star

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Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!
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With all that said, representation of each of these respective communities has increased in the new Congress.
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To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
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Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
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This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
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As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless—unable to do anything but wait.
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Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.
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The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.
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His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
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