Floating-point arithmetic

Quality:

Floating point - computer format for representing rational numbers. Article "Floating-point arithmetic" in English Wikipedia has 86 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 112 references and 27 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Floating-point arithmetic" was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Floating-point arithmetic", its content was written by 486 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1843 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1438 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6476 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #585 in August 2003
• Global: #1057 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4366 in October 2014
• Global: #5380 in October 2014

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Floating-point arithmetic		85.9734
2	Thai (th) จำนวนจุดลอยตัว		48.3476
3	Ukrainian (uk) Число з рухомою комою		43.3072
4	Estonian (et) Ujukomaarv		40.6843
5	German (de) Gleitkommazahl		40.5824
6	Turkish (tr) Kayan nokta		38.3971
7	Portuguese (pt) Vírgula flutuante		37.887
8	Polish (pl) Liczba zmiennoprzecinkowa		36.111
9	Finnish (fi) Liukuluku		30.6607
10	Chinese (zh) 浮点数运算		28.5837

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Floating-point arithmetic		11 253 920
2	German (de) Gleitkommazahl		2 592 371
3	Japanese (ja) 浮動小数点数		1 999 723
4	Russian (ru) Число с плавающей запятой		1 526 330
5	Spanish (es) Coma flotante		1 082 227
6	Polish (pl) Liczba zmiennoprzecinkowa		961 340
7	French (fr) Virgule flottante		646 300
8	Chinese (zh) 浮点数运算		599 367
9	Italian (it) Numero in virgola mobile		553 744
10	Korean (ko) 부동소수점		404 128

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Floating-point arithmetic		26 892
2	Japanese (ja) 浮動小数点数		4 348
3	German (de) Gleitkommazahl		3 294
4	Russian (ru) Число с плавающей запятой		3 040
5	Chinese (zh) 浮点数运算		1 587
6	French (fr) Virgule flottante		1 166
7	Polish (pl) Liczba zmiennoprzecinkowa		931
8	Spanish (es) Coma flotante		896
9	Korean (ko) 부동소수점		860
10	Simple English (simple) Floating point		802

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Floating-point arithmetic		486
2	German (de) Gleitkommazahl		285
3	French (fr) Virgule flottante		96
4	Spanish (es) Coma flotante		87
5	Russian (ru) Число с плавающей запятой		86
6	Polish (pl) Liczba zmiennoprzecinkowa		78
7	Italian (it) Numero in virgola mobile		76
8	Japanese (ja) 浮動小数点数		72
9	Portuguese (pt) Vírgula flutuante		62
10	Dutch (nl) Zwevendekommagetal		56

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Floating-point arithmetic		6
2	Italian (it) Numero in virgola mobile		1
3	Polish (pl) Liczba zmiennoprzecinkowa		1
4	Chinese (zh) 浮点数运算		1
5	Arabic (ar) حسابات الفاصلة المتحركة		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Аритметика с плаваща запетая		0
7	Catalan (ca) Coma flotant		0
8	Czech (cs) Pohyblivá řádová čárka		0
9	Danish (da) Flydende tal		0
10	German (de) Gleitkommazahl		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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