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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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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