Characteristic (floating point number) may refer to:

• Characteristic (biased exponent), an (ambiguous) term formerly used by some authors to specify some type of exponent of a floating point number
• Characteristic (significand), an (ambiguous) term formerly used by some authors to specify the significand of a floating point number

See also

• Characteristic (exponent notation)
• Characteristic (logarithm)
• Characteristic (disambiguation)

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