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fixed point

noun, adj — 4 senses

fixed point

nounalso spelled fixed-point
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A fractional-number representation with a fixed number of digits after the decimal point. Compare floating point and integer.

2

Mathematics, Sciences A value which is unchanged by a function or other mapping. Formally: a value x for which f(x)=x.

Derived terms
Banks-Zaks fixed point, Brouwer fixed-point theorem, fixed-point number, Kleene fixed-point theorem, Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, Tarski's fixed-point theorem, attractor, idempotence, nullipotence

fixed point

adj
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Pertaining to fixed point representations or operations.

Antonyms
floating point

fixed-point

adj
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Being or using an internal number representation with a fixed number of decimal places (as opposed to floating-point).

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for fixed point and fixed-point.