floating base support — A form of logistic support in which supplies, repairs, maintenance, and other services are provided in harbor or at an anchorage for operating forces from ships … Military dictionary
afloat support — A form of logistic support outside the confines of a harbor in which fuel, ammunition, and supplies are provided for operating forces either underway or at anchor. See also floating base support … Military dictionary
Floating point — In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent … Wikipedia
Mobile offshore base — In the defense industry of the United States, a mobile offshore base or MOB is a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available. Such a floating offshore base has been researched and proposed, but never … Wikipedia
Diving support vessel — DSV Skandi Achiever in Aberdeen A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects.[1] Commercial Diving Support Vessels emerged during the 1960s and 1970s when the need arose for … Wikipedia
Decimal floating point — Floating point precisions IEEE 754: 16 bit: Half (binary16) 32 bit: Single (binary32), decimal32 64 bit: Double (binary64), decimal64 128 bit: Quadruple (binary128), decimal128 Other: Minifloat · Extended precision Arbitrary precision… … Wikipedia
Naval Base San Diego — San Diego, California Naval Base San Diego logo Type Military … Wikipedia
Quadruple-precision floating-point format — In computing, quadruple precision (also commonly shortened to quad precision) is a binary floating point computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) in computer memory. In IEEE 754 2008 the 128 bit base 2 format is officially… … Wikipedia
IBM Floating Point Architecture — IBM System/360 computers, and subsequent machines based on that architecture (mainframes), support a hexadecimal floating point format. The format is used by SAS Transport files as required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for New Drug… … Wikipedia
Eielson Air Force Base — Part of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Located near: Fairbanks, Alaska … Wikipedia